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Arms and Armor (DK Eyewitness Books)

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Now reissued with a CD and wall chart! Eyewitness Arms and Armor is an original and exciting look at the history of weapons and armor through the ages. Stunning real-life photographs reveal the design, construction, and workings of armor, offering a unique “eyewitness” view of how methods of warfare have changed.
In a world where even toy guns are reviled by pacifistic parents there exists the atypical Eyewitness Book Arms & Armor. Studying weaponry is an atypical, fascinating angle on human history, as people have all the time used weapons to hunt, defend themselves, or attack. This intriguing photo essay examines the design, construction, and use of hand weapons and armor–from the Stone Age axe to the revolvers and rifles of the Wild West.

In the tradition of the Eyewitness series, Arms & Armor begins with a short introduction to prehistoric weapons, accompanied by a photograph-rich spread with fascinating, history-packed, fun-fact-loaded captions. The Los Angeles Times Book Review says the Eyewitness Books are “like a mini-museum between the covers of a book,” and they’re right! From crude Paleolithic hand axes, we progress to missile weapons; the first warriors (and the effect of the discovery of copper and bronze on tools and weapons); the weapons of the armies of ancient times; weapons from the Dark Ages; European swords; crossbows as opposed to longbows; axes, daggers, and knives; plate and mail armor; Indian warriors; Japanese samurais; early firearms; flintlock firearms; dueling swords; dueling pistols (“Even supposing illegal, for centuries dueling used to be a well-liked way for ‘gentlemen’ and army officers to settle their quarrels,” the section begins); ordinary, atypical, seemingly impractical hand weapons; grenadiers and cavalry; pistols; “Guns that won the West”; North American Indian weapons; and, consider it or not, more. This book is sure to find an audience with youngsters obsessed with knights and times medieval, art-history buffs, amateur historians, or anyone with a penchant for pistols. (Ages 9 to 12) –Karin Snelson

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