European weapons and armour
from the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution
by Ewart Oakeshott
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"The invasion of Italy by France in 1494 sowed the dragon's teeth of all successive European wars, and accelerated the pressures to devise ever more effective armaments and methods of warfare.".
"This account of the story of arms over the period covers in detail the development of the handgun and the pike, the use and style of staff-weapons, mace and axe and war-hammer, dagger and dirk and bayonet.
Armour is shown attaining its full Renaissance splendour then suffering its later decline; the history of the sword, Ewart Oakeshott's special interest, is followed to the late eighteenth century when it ceased to be part of everyday wear: cause or effect, the far-reaching effects of the Industrial Revolution on military armaments had begun."--BOOK JACKET.
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European weapons and armour: from the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution
2000, Boydell Press
in English
0851157890 9780851157894
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European weapons and armour: from the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution
1980, Lutterworth Press, Triwell Pub House
in English
0718821262 9780718821265
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European weapons and armour: from the Renaissance to the industrial revolution
1980, Beinfeld Pub.
in English
091771427X 9780917714276
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