Artillery : a History by Norris, John instant download

Artillery : a History by Norris, John instant download

1 online resource (337 pages), 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, Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Whence Came the Guns? The Origins of Artillery, 1200-1400; 2. Artillery Takes Shape, 1400-1500; 3. Into a New Era, 1500-1600; 4. The Gun Takes the Field, 1600-1700; 5. The Rise of the Great Gunners, 1700-1800; 6. New Developments and the Gunner's Art, 1800-1900; 7. Artillery Comes of Age, 1900-2000; 8. Further into the Twenty-First Century; Bibliography, Print version record