European Weapons and Armour: From the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution

by Ewart Oakeshott

Book Overview

The story of arms in Western Europe from the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution.

A treasury of information based on solid scholarship, anyone seeking a factual and vivid account of the story of arms from the Renaissance period to the Industrial Revolution will welcome this book. The author chooses as his starting-point the invasion of Italy by France in 1494, which sowed the dragon's teeth of all the successive European wars; the French...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184383720X
• ISBN13: 9781843837206
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.6" x 6.7"