Название: The art of attack. Being a study in the development of weapons & appliances of offence, from the earliest time
Автор: Cowper, Henry Swainson
Издательство: Ulverston W. Holmes, Ltd.
Страниц: 339
Формат: PDF
Размер: 34 Мб
Качество: Хорошее
Год: 1906
Язык: английский
Some years back, the author's attention was drawn by certain papers, (written now nearly forty years ago), by the late General Pitt-Rivers (then Colonel Lane-Fox) to the apparent development of certain weapon types from others, or from natural forms; and it seemed to him worth while to gather further material, and to try how far it would be possible to draw up a tabular pedigree of all types from the most primitive down to gunpowder and developed explosives...
