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Ancient and Medieval Siege Weapons
Edition: Hardcover Other editions available: Hardcover, Paperback, Hardcover 21 third-party copies available from: $13.20 
Other items of interest: • The Medieval Fortress: Castles, Forts, And Walled Cities Of The Middle Ages • The Art of the Catapult: Build Greek Ballistae, Roman Onagers, English Trebuchets, and More Ancient Artillery • European Medieval Tactics, Vol. 1: The Fall and Rise of Cavalry 450-1260 (Elite) • Backyard Ballistics: Build Potato Cannons, Paper Match Rockets, Cincinnati Fire Kites, Tennis Ball Mortars, and More Dynamite Devices • Castles: Their Construction and History (Dover Architecture)  Product Description: This comprehensive and highly illustrated, in colour and black and white, history of siege warfare and siege weapons, also contains a how-to guide for re-creating medieval siege weapons. Before the days of tanks and machine guns, there were scaling ladders, battering rams, siege towers, throwing machines, bores and daggers and weapons such as these symbolize power, protection, control and defiance. This book allows readers actually to re-create their own Medieval weapons with clear step-by-step instructions. Military history buffs can find siege weapons of Ancient Egypt, Judea, Assyria, Persia, Greece and Rome as well as those of the Gauls and Tueton, the Byzantine Empire, the Muslim World and Medieval Europe, all described in incredible detail accompanied by illustrations and photographs. The author offers new ways to reconstruct various siege weapons that are based on his analyses of the works of ancient and medieval authors including Vitruvius, Vegetius, Apollodorus, Athenaeus, Heron, Biton, Philon and many others. With chapters covering the history of siege warfare, siege weapons, different strategems and methods of attack and defence, readers will not only walk away with ideas of how to re-create siege weapons, they will also take with them a better understanding of history from ancient times through the end of the fifteenth century AD. Product Details/Specifications: Authors: Konstantin Nossov Recording label: The History Press Publishers: The History Press Manufacturer: The History Press EAN: 9781862273436 Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 186227343X Number of pages: 304 Publication date: 2006-01-01 Language: English (Unknown) Language: English (Original Language) Language: English (Published) |
