Exploring History: Modern Weapons (Exploring History)

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This is a series of 8 thematically structured books on the history of the world with emphasis on geographical and historical context. This thematic approach to history provides an excellent overview of the people, places, events, and inventions that have shaped and influenced the last 40,000 years. Modern Weapons is an organized approach to the history of modern weapons and their uses, vividly brought to life and set in context by superb illustrations, engravings, battle maps and photographs. The modern period is defined as beginning in the early 17th century when guns were used on the battlefield as massed artillery for the first time. Then followed the rapid growth of the effectiveness and lethality of weapons on land, sea and air which, with the impact of modern technology, has given rise to the to the vast array of sophisticated weapons in use today. Modern Weapons and Warfare traces the development of weaponry over the last 300 years, from the Napoleonic Wars up to present day crises like The Gulf War.

Exploring History: Modern Weapons (Exploring History),Will Fowler,Will Fowler,Lorenz Books Childrens,0754804534,Children's 9-12 - History - Military / War,Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction,Children: Grades 3-4,History - Military & Wars,History - Modern,Juvenile Nonfiction,Juvenile literature,Military history, Modern,Warfare,Weapons,20th century,Reference / General,Weapons & equipment,World history: c 1500 to c 1900,World history: from c 1900 -,c 1700 to c 1800,c 1800 to c 1900

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