military weapons

With first-hand accounts and full-color photographs, describes the military machines and science behind the Allied victory in World War II.

Explores the historical weapons and gear the soldiers of the American Revolutionary War used on the battlefield.

A brief overview of World War II weapons used by both the Allied and Axis forces including field weapons and heavy artillery.

Describes the weapons used in battles during World War I, including infantry weapons and heavy artillery such as howitzers and machine guns.

Presents a brief, illustrated description of some of the weapons used during the Revolutionary War, which includes muskets, bayonets, tomahawks, howitzers, and more; and also describes defenses.

Describes the weapons of the Civil War, including small arms and larger weapons.

Describes a variety of weapons from ancient times focusing on hunting tools, sharp rocks, pointed sticks, stone daggers, and boomerangs. Later on weapons were made from copper, bronze, and iron. When soldiers began to ride in chariots, they developed weapons they could hurl against walls of castles and ships from which they could throw deadly weapons of war.

Traces the development of military tactics and such items as swords, spears, long-range weapons, artillery, and body coverings from prehistory to Roman times.

An introduction to the artillery, poison gas, guns, tanks, and U-boats and torpedoes used in World War I.

Photographic study of the development of weapons during the twentieth century, discussing the infantry weapons used during the two World Wars, as well as the Korean, Vietnam, Falklands and Gulf wars, and looking at the use of arms and armor outside the military.