Название: Artillery an illustrated history of their impact
Автор: Jeff Kinard
Издательство: ABC Clio
Серия: Weapons and warfare
Год: 2007
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 550
Размер: 33 Mb
Язык: English

Anticipating hostilities, a dynamic military leader summons his finest engineers and craftsmen to develop new weapons. Two years later, those weapons lead to a decisive victory. The time is 24 centuries ago, the leader is Dionysus of Syracuse, and the weapons include tension-powered catapults—the earliest recorded artillery pieces deployed in battle.