The history of weapons. Ancient world. Dubrovsky A.

At all times, the outcome of the battles depended on what means and skills the warring parties had. In many ways, it was the war that served the development of technologies: whether people opened metals, whether new methods of movement or management of animals were invented - all this was used for the glory of weapons. Simultaneously with weapons, methods of battle were also improved. It became clear: in order to achieve its goal, it is not necessary to go ahead, and the quality, as a rule, is more important than the quantity.

In this book, historian Andrei Dubrovsky analyzes the tactics and strategies characteristic of the civilizations of antiquity - Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Greece, Greece, Rome, Carthage and others, talks about the main types of weapons and uniforms, about the types of building troops and about the military ranks important for the ancient world.

This book opens up a new series telling about weapons and wars in different eras - from antiquities until the XX century. In the following volumes of the series, we will again witness cruel conquests, armed conflicts and bloody clashes of countries, peoples and civilizations. The war will remain an inevitable companion of mankind. But will it be the same war? Weapons, tactics, technologies will change more rapidly and radical. Powerful Empires of nomads will leave the historical arena. The revolution in military affairs will commit gunpowder. Closer to our times, the completely unprecedented “monsters” will enter the battlefields - combat vehicles, and then the battles will “spill out” into the sky. Showing the unsightly sides of the war, speaking of destruction and chaos that it carries, the author emphasizes that interest in military history is primarily an interest in the past, and not a thirst for war in the present.

for the middle and medium and senior school age.