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Rating: 
Summary: Excellent survey.
Review: From the ancient Greeks to the advent of the machine gun, all significant developments in the soldiers' combat equipage
are comprehensively treated, with clear, concise
narrative and many beautifully rendered full-color pictures.
The text is divided into broad historical areas for convenience, and the concomitant evolution of
weapons and tactics are clearly explained. As a bonus, there are chapters on Oriental and Tribal
Arms and Armor, and Sporting Arms and Armor.
This work is a companion to Bull's "20th-Century Arms and Armor", which is similar in format and
also highly recommended.
A high-quality production, in large format, generously illustrated, with bibliography and index.
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employ numerical ratings.)
Rating:
Summary: Excellent survey.
Review: From the ancient Greeks to the advent of the machine gun, all significant developments in the soldiers' combat equipageare comprehensively treated, with clear, concise narrative and many beautifully rendered full-color pictures.
The text is divided into broad historical areas for convenience, and the concomitant evolution of weapons and tactics are clearly explained. As a bonus, there are chapters on Oriental and Tribal Arms and Armor, and Sporting Arms and Armor.
This work is a companion to Bull's "20th-Century Arms and Armor", which is similar in format and also highly recommended.
A high-quality production, in large format, generously illustrated, with bibliography and index.
(The numerical rating above is a default setting within Amazon's format. This reviewer does not employ numerical ratings.)
Rating:
Summary: A collector's item!
Review: Regardless of what my predeccessors might say, this book is really a unique pleasure to have. It's illustrations are excellent, as is the historical information about almost every era. This is truly a book worth having, even if you are not interested in the research of arms and armour as myself. I would also recommend it as a book for children to have, because its colourfullness and relative simplicity makes it excellent for children to find out about arms and armour. Don't miss it!
Rating: 
Summary: A very good book indeed - great pics
Review: The first book about weapons and armor i bought, and well worth the money too. Just one bad thing about it - for me anyway - It goes on for too long, including the american civil war and WW1. Even though this is well done, i find that it doesn't really fit in with the rest of the book, especially if you see that no armor exists then...It also has a short chapter about "foreign" weapons: Japan, India, Afrika, etc. Again, if you're looking for medieval knights, not too interesting.
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