50 WEAPONS THAT CHANGED WARFARE

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• 50 Weapons that Changed Warfare looks at the history of warfare, focusing on the hardware that served these famous battles.

Included:

• Individual weapons, from spears to the submachine gun.
• Crew-served weapons, from battering rams to "Big Bertha" .
• Unmanned weapons, from punji stakes to "Bouncing Betty" landmines and trap guns.
• It also includes devices that, strictly speaking, are weapon carriers, such as tanks and bombers, but which have had enormous effects on the conduct of war.

These weapons have changed not only how we fight, but also why and when we fight.

50 Weapons that Changed Warfare shows us how we got to this day and age, and what had to be done to reach it.

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