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It all started with stones clubs being a short history of war and weaponry from earliest times to the present noting the gratifying progress made by man since his first crude smallscale efforts to do away with those who disagreed with him
Author: Richard armour

In this work of blood and irony, Richard Armour bravely tackles a ticklish subject. his method, as might be expected, is completely his own. He does not satirize war. He lets war satirize itself. Bombs, he believes, speak louder than words. — The author ranges from the pointed stick to the thermonuclear bomb, from the crudest cave to the air-...  more »conditioned shelter. He dwells lovingly on the scythe chariot, the Macedonian sarissa, the catapult, the ballista,the gladius, the Viking ax, the crossbow, the longbow, the scimitar, the pike, the bombard, the arquebus, and other devices that make one proud of the ingenuity of man.

"Some of the sprightliest satire in many a moon." (The New York Times)

"He is unlicensed, uninhibited, and unexcelled." (St. Louis Post Dispatch)  « less

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ISBN: 398549
Publication Date: 1973
Pages: 147
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Publisher: McGraw-Hill Paperbacks
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