The Art of Attack and the Development of Weapons: from the Earliest Times to ... - H. S. Cowper - Google Books

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This most unusual book is subtitled Being a Study in the Development of weapons and Appliances of Offence from the Earliest Times to the Age of Gunpowder. It surveys, in considerable detail and with numerous drawings and illustrations, the art and means of…