It All Started With Stones and Clubs: Being a Short History of War and Weaponry From Earliest Times to the Present

by Richard Armour

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070022607
• ISBN13: 9780070022607
• Release Date: January 1967
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

War and Irony

In this work of blood and irony, Richard Armour bravely tackles a ticklish subject. His method, as might be expected, is completely his own. He does not satirize war. He lets war satirize itself. Bombs, he believes, speak louder than words. The author ranges from the pointed stick to the thermonuclear bomb, from the crudest cave to the air-conditioned shelter. He dwells lovingly on the scythe chariot, the Macedonian sarissa, the catapult, the ballista, the gladius, the Viking ax, the crossbow, the longbow, the scimitar, the pike, the bombard, the arquebus, and other devices that make one proud of the ingenuity of man. -- from book's back cover