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By R. Ewart Oakeshott

Premodern guns of conflict obtain a drastically specified and thorough accounting during this quantity — the paintings of a famous authority on medieval palms in Europe. protecting a interval of 30 centuries, the learn, like a richly woven tapestry, vividly describes the improvement of fingers and armor — starting with the guns of the prehistoric Bronze and Iron a while, in the course of the breakup of the Roman Empire and the good folk-migrations of the interval; the age of the Vikings; and at last, the Age of Chivalry.
Relying on facts of fingers present in bathrooms, tombs, rivers, excavations, and different websites in addition to on modern artwork and literature, the writer describes intimately an grand array of the guns and accoutrements of warfare: swords, shields, spears, helmets, daggers, longbows, crossbows, axes, chain mail, plate armor, gauntlets, and masses else.
Profusely illustrated with greater than a hundred and seventy of the author's personal line drawings and 23 plates depicting many infrequent and lovely guns, this meticulously researched quantity can be an critical source for army historians, archaeologists, scholars of palms and armor, and a person attracted to the weaponry of old.

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