Weapons

A Pictorial History

By: Edwin Tunis

Write A Review

Paperback | 14 August 1999

Sorry, we are not able to source the book you are looking for right now.

We did a search for other books with a similar title, however there were no matches. You can try selecting from a similar category, click on the author's name, or use the search box above to find your book.

Weapons is the rich and exciting story of arms through the ages -- from the first tied stone thrown by prehistoric hunters to the super bombs of today. Illustrated with the unusually detailed and astonishingly realistic drawings of Edwin Tunis, it is a weapon-by-weapon account of human ingenuity in the invention and improvement of arms for defense and offense. The detailed and engaging text is filled with useful information and anecdotes that bring history to life.

Tunis begins with the Stone Age, describing its slings and spears, its axes and bows and arrows, and follows developments through to the Copper and Bronze Ages when chariots, swords, and daggers were first produced. He chronicles the advances of the Iron Age, with its stronger swords, helmets, and complicated siege weapons and describes the changing notions of war throughout the ages. From the highly fortified castles of the Normans to the thermonuclear weapons of today, this remarkable history weapons and the warriors who used them is a treasure trove of lore and information.

Industry Reviews

""Brings history to life... a magnificent treasury of lore and information.""

Shipping

	Standard Shipping	Express Shipping
Metro postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Regional postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Rural postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95

Orders over $89.00 qualify for free shipping.

How to return your order

At Booktopia, we offer hassle-free returns in accordance with our returns policy. If you wish to return an item, please get in touch with Booktopia Customer Care.

Additional postage charges may be applicable.

Defective items

If there is a problem with any of the items received for your order then the Booktopia Customer Care team is ready to assist you.

For more info please visit our Help Centre.

You Can Find This Book In

Kids & Children's Books Children's Non-Fiction Warfare, Battles & Armed Forces for Children & Teenagers Non-Fiction History Regional & National History History of the Americas Warfare & Defence Weapons & Equipment Engineering & Technology Other Technologies & Applied Sciences Military Engineering

Ordnance Technology in General History of Engineering & Technology

"Nike," Antiaircraft Guided Missile	p. 2
Preface	p. 5
Note	p. 13
Stone Weapons	p. 15
Prehistoric Man Throwing a Tied Stone	p. 15
Simple Sling	p. 15
War Spear and Fishing Spear	p. 16
Flint Knife	p. 16
Polished Stone Ax	p. 16
Chipped Flint Ax	p. 16
Throwing Stick	p. 17
American Indian Bow and Arrow	p. 17
American Indian with Bow and Arrow	p. 17
Types of Arrowheads	p. 18
Filipino Blowgun	p. 18
Australian Boomerang	p. 18
Copper and Bronze (5000 B.C.-1000 B.C.)	p. 18
Cooper Ax	p. 18
Chaldean Warriors 2000 B.C.	p. 19
Bronze Chaldean Dagger	p. 19
Copper Spearhead	p. 19
Asiatic Composite Bow	p. 19
Egyptian Bow and Arrow	p. 20
Egyptian Sword	p. 20
Chaldean War Chariot	p. 21
Egyptian War Chariot	p. 21
Babylonian Battering Spear	p. 22
The Greeks and Bronze (1000 B.C.)	p. 22
Homeric Warrior with Tower Shield	p. 23
Homeric Warrior with Figure-eight Shield	p. 23
Bronze Spearhead	p. 23
Long Stabbing Sword	p. 23
Homeric Foot Soldier	p. 24
The Trojan Horse	p. 24
The Greeks and Iron (680 B.C.-150 B.C.)	p. 25
Greek Hoplite 500 B.C.	p. 25
Peltast	p. 26
Greek Phalanx	p. 26
Diagram of Phalanx Advance	p. 26
Corinthian Helmet	p. 27
Boetian Helmet	p. 27
Greek Sword	p. 27
The Roman Soldier (200 B.C.-A.D. 400)	p. 28
Legionary Helmet	p. 29
Roman Centurion and Legionary	p. 29
Sword	p. 29
Velite	p. 30
Gladiator's Helmet	p. 30
Roman Sieges and Siege Engines (200 B.C.-A.D. 400)	p. 30
Battering Ram, Testudo and Tower	p. 31
Onager in Action	p. 32
Onager Loaded, Showing Slip-Hook	p. 33
Ballista	p. 33
Catapult for Javelins	p. 34
Trigger Operation of Catapult	p. 34
The Dark Ages	p. 35
Frankish Warrior, Sixteenth Century	p. 35
Frankish Throwing Ax	p. 35
Early Frankish Shield	p. 35
Anglo-Saxon Taper Ax	p. 36
Anglo-Saxon Broadax	p. 36
Frankish Soldier, Ninth Century	p. 36
Morning Star	p. 37
Frankish Sword	p. 37
Anglo-Saxon Iron Arrowheads	p. 37
Scramasax or Dirk	p. 37
Anglo-Saxon Spearhead	p. 37
Anglo-Saxon Bill	p. 37
The Norman Conquest (1066)	p. 38
Two Saxons and Norman Knight	p. 38
Norman Sword and Scabbard	p. 39
Mace	p. 39
Knights' Spurs	p. 40
Chain-Mail Pattern	p. 40
Castles	p. 41
Early Norman Castle	p. 41
Stone Keep, Interior View	p. 42
Tower Keep	p. 43
Crossbowman	p. 43
Archer Shooting through Crenel	p. 43
Hoardings	p. 44
Machicolations	p. 44
Moated Castle, c. 1300	p. 45
Portcullis, Closed	p. 45
War Games (1200-1300)	p. 46
Knights Jousting	p. 46
Tilting at the Quintain	p. 47
Bout with Quarterstaves	p. 48
The "Exercise of the Sword-and-Buckler"	p. 48
Knights and Armor (1200-1300)	p. 48
Iron Heaume	p. 49
Helmets	p. 49
Falchion and Misericord	p. 50
Knight Arming for Tournament	p. 51
Caltrops	p. 51
Medieval Arms and "Gyns" (1300-1400)	p. 52
Foot Soldier	p. 52
The Royal Standard	p. 53
Crested Heaume	p. 53
The "Mouse"	p. 54
Scaling Ladder	p. 54
Springal	p. 54
Ballista	p. 55
Mangonel or "Nag"	p. 55
Large Trebuchet	p. 56
Longbows and Crossbows (1300-1400)	p. 57
Archers, Fourteenth Century	p. 58
Two-Fingered Draw	p. 59
Longbow	p. 59
Flight Arrow and Livery Arrow	p. 59
Diagram: Aiming Arrow	p. 60
Arrowheads	p. 60
Shooting Tab and Bracer	p. 61
Mantlet	p. 62
Pavise	p. 62
Lock Mechanism of Crossbow	p. 63
Simple Crossbow	p. 64
Archer Drawing Crossbow	p. 64
Belt Claw for Drawing Crossbow	p. 64
Quarrel for Crossbow	p. 64
Operating Cord and Pulley of Crossbow	p. 64
Composite Crossbow	p. 65
Staff Sling	p. 65
Knights and Guns (1300-1400)	p. 66
Basinet with Movable Visor	p. 66
The Black Prince in Armor	p. 66
Armored or Barded Horse	p. 67
Pot de Fer--First Metal Cannon	p. 67
Lance with Coronel Point	p. 67
Cannon at Battle of Crecy	p. 68
Early Bombard	p. 68
Hooped Bombard	p. 69
One-man Hand "Gonne"	p. 69
Two-man Hand "Gonne"	p. 69
Hand "Gonne," Fourteenth Century	p. 69
Proof Armor, Arbalests and Breechloaders (1400-1500)	p. 70
Joust with Barrier	p. 70
Helm, Fifteenth Century	p. 71
Billman wearing Brigandine Jacket	p. 71
Pole Arms: Oxtongue, Poleax, Glave	p. 72
Hunter Shooting an Arbalest	p. 72
Setting Arbalest with Windlass and Tackle	p. 73
Gaffle for Setting Arbalest	p. 73
"Works" of a Gaffle	p. 73
"Goat's Foot"	p. 74
Prodd or Stonebow	p. 74
Setting a Prodd	p. 75
War Quarrels and Game Bolts	p. 75
Two-man Culverin	p. 75
One-man Culverin	p. 75
Large Siege Bombard	p. 76
Breechloader	p. 77
Matchlocks and Wheel Locks (1500-1600)	p. 78
Arquebusier and Helper	p. 78
Matchlock Gun	p. 79
Inside of Matchlock	p. 79
Bullet Pouch and Touch-box	p. 80
Musketeer Using Rest	p. 80
Wooden Powder Chargers on Bandolier	p. 80
The "Monk's Gun"	p. 81
Inside of Wheel Lock	p. 81
Spanner for Winding Wheel Lock	p. 81
Ball-butted Wheel-lock Pistol	p. 82
"Holy-water Sprinkle"	p. 82
Soldiers (1500-1600)	p. 83
Knight in Maximilian Armor	p. 83
Reiter	p. 84
Pikeman	p. 84
Swiss Halberdier	p. 85
Pole Arms: Guisarme, Partisan, Fauchard, Halberd	p. 85
Flamberge	p. 85
Claymore	p. 86
Cinquedea	p. 86
Duel with Swords and Daggers	p. 86
Duel in the French Style	p. 86
Rapier Hilts	p. 87
Nobleman with Rapier in Baldric	p. 87
Sixteenth-Century Headpieces	p. 87
Cannons (1500-1600)	p. 88
Ship Cannon, Sixteenth Century	p. 88
The Six Cannon Sizes of Henry II	p. 89
Moving a Culverin	p. 90
"Double firing" from a Mortar	p. 90
Cavaliers and Snaphances (1600-1700)	p. 91
Dutch Pikeman of 1607	p. 91
Cavalier and Attendant	p. 92
Puritan Roundhead	p. 92
Inside a Snaphance Lock	p. 93
Inside a Flintlock	p. 93
Plug Bayonet	p. 94
Soldier with Flintlock Musket	p. 94
Brass-barreled Blunderbuss	p. 95
Coachman with Blunderbuss	p. 95
Spring-gun	p. 95
Field Guns and Bastioned Forts (1600-1700)	p. 96
Swedish Cast-iron Four-pounder	p. 96
Canister	p. 96
Small Coehorn Mortar	p. 97
Howitzer	p. 97
Gunner's Quadrant and Level	p. 97
Two Bastions of a Vauban Fort	p. 98
Profile of a Vauban Fort	p. 99
Diagram of Vauban's Siege System	p. 99
Powder Magazine	p. 100
The Kentucky Flintlock Rifle (1727-1820)	p. 101
German Rifle	p. 101
Frontiersman with Rifle	p. 101
Kentucky Rifle, Left Side	p. 102
Kentucky Rifle, Right Side	p. 102
Loading Patched Bullet	p. 102
Rifling Bench	p. 103
Pouch and Powder Horn	p. 104
Bullet Mold	p. 104
The Hall Rifle	p. 105
Court or Dress Sword	p. 105
Naval Cutlass	p. 105
Cavalry Saber and Scabbard	p. 105
Flintlock Pistol	p. 106
Eighteenth-Century Artillery (1700-1800)	p. 106
Horse Artillery	p. 106
Grape Shot	p. 107
Barbette Carriage	p. 107
Naval Truck Gun	p. 108
Ladle	p. 108
Rammer	p. 109
Handspike	p. 109
Wormer	p. 109
Sponge	p. 109
Linstock	p. 109
"Cat"	p. 109
Scraper	p. 109
Semi-fixed Ammunition	p. 110
Percussion (1800-1850)	p. 110
Forsyth "Scent-bottle" Percussion Lock	p. 110
Inside of the Scent-bottle	p. 111
Shaw Cap Lock	p. 111
U.S. Army Model of 1841 Rifle	p. 112
Belted Ball and Bore	p. 112
Diagrams of Minie Ball	p. 112
Maynard Tape Primer	p. 113
Derringer	p. 113
Pepperbox	p. 113
"Texas Model" Colt's Patent Revolver	p. 114
The Rockets' Red Glare and the "Soda Bottle" (1800-1850)	p. 114
Eighteenth-century Bomb with Rings	p. 114
Handling a Bomb with Tongs	p. 115
English Military Rocket about 1900	p. 115
Friction Primer	p. 115
Congreve Military Rocket	p. 115
Foredeck of a Bomb Ketch	p. 116
Cavelli Shot	p. 116
Whitworth Shot	p. 116
Dahlgren "Soda Bottle"	p. 117
Gastight Cartridges and Smokeless Powder (1850-1900)	p. 117
Maynard Carbine and Pierced Cartridge	p. 117
Pistol-carbine	p. 118
Model One, Smith and Wesson Revolver	p. 118
Navy Single-shot Pistol	p. 118
Krag-Jorgenson Rifle	p. 119
Henry Repeating Rifle	p. 119
.30 Caliber Cartridge for Krag Rifle	p. 119
Borchardt Automatic Pistol	p. 120
Rifled Cannon and Recoil Mechanisms (1850-1900)	p. 120
Light Parrott Rifled Cannon	p. 120
Shell for Parrott Rifle	p. 121
Thirteen-inch Civil War Mortar	p. 121
Breechblock for Big Gun	p. 122
Fixed Ammunition	p. 123
Gun on Disappearing Carriage	p. 123
French "75" in Recoil after Firing	p. 124
Quick-Firing and Machine Guns (1850-1900)	p. 124
Montigny Mitrailleuse	p. 125
Early Gatling Gun	p. 125
Gardner Portable Quick-firing Gun	p. 126
Maxim Automatic Machine Gun	p. 126
Colt-Browning Machine Gun	p. 126
Shoulder Arms and Hand Arms (1900-1925)	p. 127
U.S. Air Force Survival Gun	p. 127
Double-barreled Eight-Gauge Elephant Gun	p. 127
First Colt Automatic Pistol	p. 128
M1903 Springfield Rifle	p. 129
Lewis Light Machine Gun	p. 129
Great Guns and Little Guns (1900-1925)	p. 130
37 mm. Gun on Tripod Mount	p. 130
Truck-mounted Antiaircraft Gun 1918	p. 130
"Skysweeper" 75 mm. Radar-Controlled Antiaircraft Gun	p. 131
155 mm. Howitzer Pulled by Five-ton Artillery Tractor	p. 132
Fourteen-inch Railway Gun	p. 133
The Paris Gun	p. 133
Armor-piercing Shell	p. 134
Canister, 1953	p. 135
Special Weapons (1900-1925)	p. 135
Da Vinci's "Tank"	p. 135
British Heavy Tank, World War I	p. 135
Pineapple Hand Grenade	p. 136
Rifle Grenade and Launcher	p. 136
60 mm. Trench Mortar, Current Model	p. 137
Diagram of Torpedo	p. 138
Mine Detector	p. 139
Navy Frogman Clearing a Mine Field	p. 139
World War I Gas Mask	p. 140
Self-Loading and Automatic Guns After 1925	p. 140
Garand Rifle	p. 140
"T-47" Automatic Rifle	p. 140
M1 Carbine	p. 141
Carbine with "Sniperscope"	p. 142
Tommy Gun	p. 142
M3 Submachine Gun	p. 143
Browning Air-cooled Machine Gun	p. 143
Sizes of .30- and .50-Caliber Rounds	p. 144
1954	p. 144
155 mm. Gun on Pneumatic-tired Carriage	p. 144
155 mm. Gun on Self-propelled Carriage	p. 145
"General Pershing" 45-ton Tank	p. 145
"Patton" 48-ton Medium Tank	p. 146
Walker Bulldog 26-ton Light Tank	p. 146
280 mm. Mobile Atomic Gun	p. 147
3.5-inch Super-bazooka	p. 147
57 mm. Recoilless Rifle	p. 148
75 mm. Recoilless Rifle	p. 148
V-1 Buzz Bomb	p. 149
V-2 Rocket Bomb	p. 149
Flame Thrower	p. 150
2000-pound Demolition Bomb	p. 151
Table of Contents provided by Syndetics. All Rights Reserved.

Weapons

A Pictorial History

Industry Reviews

Shipping

How to return your order

Defective items

You Can Find This Book In

More in Regional & National History

Looking from the North

Australian history from the top down

Building Stories: Perth

Gossip, Ghosts & Good Times: Perth's Most Colourful Building Histories

The Making of the Middle Ages

An Atlas of Europe

Rasputin

And the Downfall of the Romanovs

Touching the Sky

The extraordinary story of an Australian trailblazer who became the longest flying female airline pilot in the world

Ellen Savage and the Heroes of AHS Centaur

from the bestselling author of SISTER VIV and MARY PENFOLD

Not Just a Bunnings Man

The life and times of Tom (G.M.) Bunning

Men in the Sun

And Other Palestinian Stories

Luna Park

The extraordinary story of the showmen, shysters and schemers who built Sydney's famous fun park

Red Dawn Over China

How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity

The Library That Made Me

200 years of the State Library of NSW

The Town Like No Other

A Story of Broken Hill

The First Anzacs

The incredible untold stories of Aussie and Kiwi combat engineers in WWI

Strange New World

Belsen's First Year of Freedom

Battle of the Arctic

The Maritime Epic of World War Two

The Fourth Turning

An American Prophecy: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny

Half of a Yellow Sun

Reading Greek

Text and Vocabulary : 2nd Edition

Born in 1946? What else happened?

What else happened?

A Concise History of Australia

5th Edition

Introduction to Medieval Europe 300-1500

4th Edition

What a Ripper!

60 everyday objects that shaped Australia

Norse-Gaelic Paganism

Viking and Irish Myth and Magic

The Menzies Legacy

Ideals, change, procession, 1960s and beyond

This product is categorised by