Pictorial arsenal of war-making instruments offers over 1,400 royalty-free illustrations of battle-axes, bows & arrows, cannons, catapults, clubs, daggers, handguns, tanks, suits of armor, helmets, much more culled from old archives and publications. Sources listed. Index. Captions.
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Pictorial arsenal of war-making instruments offers over 1,400 royalty-free illustrations of battle-axes, bows & arrows, cannons, catapults, clubs, daggers, handguns, tanks, suits of armor, helmets, much more culled from old archives and publications. Sources listed. Index. Captions.
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