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 invasion was to accelerate the trend towards new armaments and new methods of warfare.
The author describes the development of the handgu.
Boydell Press European weapons and armour: from the renaissance to the industrial revolution, paperback/ewart oakeshott
