Artillery: An Illustrated History of Its Impact

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Author(s): Jeff Kinard
Series: Weapons and Warfare
Edition: 1
Year: 0

Language: English
Pages: 550

ARTILLERY: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY......Page 2
CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION TO WEAPONS AND WARFARE SERIES
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PREFACE
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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1: Ancient and Medieval Artillery
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2: Early Gunpowder Artillery
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3: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
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4: Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century Artillery
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5: Nineteenth-Century U.S. Artillery, 1800–1865
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6: Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Artillery
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7: The Interwar Years and World War II, 1921–1945
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8: Post–World War II and Late-Twentieth-Century Developments
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REFERENCE SECTION
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CHAPTER SIX SPECIFICATIONS: LATE-NINETEENTH-AND EARLY-TWENTIE
TH-CENTURY ARTILLERY......Page 338
CHAPTER SEVEN SPECIFICAT IONS: 1921–1945
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CHAPTER EIGHT SPECIFICATIONS:
POST–WORLD WAR I I AND
LATE-TWENTIETH-CENTURY
DEVELOPMENTS......Page 478
GLOSSARY
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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INDEX
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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