armor

Be an eyewitness to awesome and bloody weapons such as swords, knuckledusters, and pistols - and the equipment used to deflect deadly slashes, blows, and bullets.

Comprehensive survey of traditional African arms and armor describing the weaponry of each society, from North Africa to the Cape, from the far West to the Horn.

Presents the comic-style story in which Caesar's announcement that he plans to parade with the shield of his fallen enemy Vercingetorix, sends Romans and Gauls both racing to find the missing artifact.

Text and photographs present modern weaponry of land, sea, and air combat forces around the world.

Summary: Traces the development of arms and armor as well as telling the history of knights in action, in war, and in hazardous melees.

A photo essay examining the design, construction, and uses of hand weapons and armor from a Stone Age axe to the revolvers and rifles of the Wild West.

Describes arms and armor from the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans to the early nineteenth century. Includes over 300 illustrations.

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.

Pictorial history of military weapons from the stone age to atom bombs.

The story of armor, how it evolved, how it was made, and even how the knight put the armor on.