War Bows: Longbow, Crossbow, Composite Bow and Japanese Yumi, Loades Mike

Автор: Loades Mike
Название: The Crossbow
ISBN: 1472824601 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472824608
Издательство: Osprey
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Описание: Technologically sophisticated and powerful, the crossbow has long enjoyed a popular reputation for villainous superiority because it could be used with little training as a weapon of assassination. The study of bow designs, trigger mechanisms and spanning devices reveals a tale of considerable mechanical ingenuity; advances that produced a battlefield weapon requiring comparatively little training to use. It was an extremely useful weapon, and especially effective in siege warfare for both attack and defence.

Known to the Ancient Greeks and the Chinese as early as the 5th century BC, the crossbow developed both in Western Europe and in the Far East. Advances in trigger mechanisms, spanning and bow design allowed the development of ever more powerful bows. In this study acknowledged weaponry expert Mike Loades traces the origins, development, combat record and lasting legacy of the crossbow, the formidable projectile weapon that played a key role in a host of battles and sieges across Europe and Asia.

Автор: Loades Mike
Название: The Longbow
ISBN: 1782000852 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781782000853
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Описание: An iconic medieval missile weapon, the deadly longbow made possible the English victories at Crecy and Poitiers at the height of the Hundred Years` War. The longbow was the weapon at the heart of the English military ascendancy in the century after 1340. This book deals with this topic.

Автор: Loades Mike
Название: The Composite Bow
ISBN: 1472805917 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472805911
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Описание: An ancient design, emerging from Central Asia in the second millennium BC, the composite bow was adopted by a staggering variety of cultures. This book tells the story of this extraordinary piece of military hardware; how it was made and how various cultures developed differing tactics for using it.