For the first time in paperback, a photographic history of civilization, as seen through the world's most deadly and fascinating firearms.The Illustrated History of Guns is a comprehensive look at the tools of battle. To craft this book, more than five hundred photographs of genuine specimens were specially commissioned from the six-thousand-piece collection of the Berman Museum of World History. The weapons featured span a period of close to four thousand years, ranging from Ancient Greece to World War II, and from the Crusades in Europe to the US Civil War. It features a...
For the first time in paperback, a photographic history of civilization, as seen through the world's most deadly and fascinating firearms. ...