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Artillery : A History

by Norris, John
Published by : The History Press (London) Physical details: xi,323 Pages 23x15 cm | PB ISBN:9780752461892.
Subject(s): Artillery -- Military history
Year: 2011
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Books Books General Stacks Non-fiction 355.82109 N822A 2011 (Browse shelf) Available 32636

Include Index, Bibliography and Illustration

By the time the guns fell silent on 11 November 1918, vast tracts of the European landscape had been so utterly devastated by artillery fire that they were virtually unrecognisable. Of all the many weapons invented by man for the purpose of waging war, artillery must rank among the most destructive of all. Through detailed research, John Norris has traced the development of artillery through the ages and up to the dawn of the twenty-first century, to provide a fascinating study of this principal weapon of warfare. From its earliest recorded use in battle about a millennium ago, up to the.

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