Guns (Hamlyn all-colour)
Guns (Hamlyn all-colour)
Hamlyn | 1970 | ISBN: 060000290X | English | 166 pages | PDF | 25.8 MB
The first crude firearms made their appearance in Europe early in the fourteenth century. At first they were unreliable and ineffective, but slowly their design and power increased and by the sixteenth century they were beginning to dominate the battlefields. From then on, their story became more and more involved with inventors seeking ways to improve the performance of firearms. Some of the characters were remarkable people and some of the new ideas strange; one man wanted to fire round bullets at Christians and square ones at Turks.