For 4,000 years weapons, and the warriors who used them, have acted as the cutting edge of history, using ax, spear, bow, sword, gun, a nd cannon to determine the rise of kingdoms and the fall of empires. From the stone axes of the earliest warfare to the heavy artillery of today's modern armies, this awe-inspiring book portrays for the first time the entire spectrum of weaponry. A spectacular, unprecedented visual reference to the design, function and history of arms and armor from around the world. Combines specially commissioned photography and sophisticated design with authoritative text and exhaustive coverage. Beautifully photographed and richly detailed catalogues display - often at actual size - all the major types of weapon, from spears to machine-guns. Profiles the warriors who have deployed the weapons to devastating effect, from the Roman legionary to the US Navy Seal. Includes features that showcase individual weapons in stunning detail.
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Written by a team of British military historians, this oversize volume seizes attention with the publisher's brand-name design: images surrounded by information-packed captions silhouetted against a white or a black background. Its pictures are sure to snare the substantial audience interested in the history of swords, guns, and body armor. Limiting the subject to portable armaments, the work extends from the first likely weapon (a rock) to the rifles issued to contemporary infantrymen. In most cases, the emphasis is on the tools of the ordinary soldier, his equipage through time explained with arrowed illustrations. The evolution of handheld weaponry is soon apparent, with that of firearms especially prominent. Some guns depicted here will be recognizable (think AK-47) even to those who recoil from guns. Explaining how such lethal equipment works is Weapon's forte; another asset is the comparison of weapon categories across a suite of historical societies. Popular? That's a foregone conclusion. Gilbert Taylor
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【Review】
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"Weapon depicts the spectrum of weaponry from the stone axes of early warfare to today's modern artillery."
– Publishers Weekly
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"An illustrated history of weaponry diagrams in detail."
– Columbus Dispatch
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"From Assyrian spears to the AK-47, weapons — and the warriors who have brandished them — forged history by shaping the rise of empires and the course of revolutions with the ax, the bow, the sword, and the gun."
– Military Officer
發表於2024-12-24
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圖書標籤: DK 武器 英文原版 美國 科普 雜 已上天 圖鑒
臨摹到斷手....太棒瞭
評分印刷精美,清晰,配圖選的實物很有代錶性,時代也很全麵。唯一不足的,就是每個時代的配圖還是太少瞭。
評分印刷精美,清晰,配圖選的實物很有代錶性,時代也很全麵。唯一不足的,就是每個時代的配圖還是太少瞭。
評分大緻按照時間跟地區來介紹武器和戰術的發展。實話說看到一戰部分已經很不愉快。古代人對武器裝飾和考慮的那種狂熱,還有宗教、儀式專用的象徵性武器充滿權威敬畏甚至愛,令人眼界大開,是審美的感受。等它們慢慢變到隻想專心殺人的設計,戰術也大為變化,甚至人口下降到軍人打破瞭階級的區彆(這事兒還發生瞭好幾輪),書也是以反戰的語氣來寫的,所以是越看越看欣賞不瞭那些武器的清晰圖片瞭。書編的很好,圖片很清晰,拆解講解很詳細。
評分其實基本看圖瞭,五星都給找到書的小崽子3~~~
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