Author: Macksey, Kenneth, Title: TECHNOLOGY IN WAR - The Impact of Science on Weapon Development and Modern Battle.
Description: Guild Publishing, London, 1986, club edn., 224pp, coloured and half tone ills. maps and diagrams in text, large format (10 x 7.5 inches approx.), red cloth lettered and bordered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, pictorial montage dustwrapper, since the industrial revolution war and conflict have been an immense facilitator in technological advances. The author identifies the key developments and improvements the last 150 years and applies them to specific battles, showing their impact on strategy and tactics, from the Gatling Gun and fully automatic weapons through warship design, the submarine, aircraft, tanks, radio, radar, sonar and navigation etc. to tactical missles and orbital weapons systems, lightly rubbed and faintly bumped at tips, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at extrems., short repaired tear at head of spine, very good plus in a very good dustwrapper,
Keywords: military history weapons automatic war crimea ww1 ww2 vietnam yom kippur submarine tank missile innovation radio radar sonar science technology
Price: GBP 9.50 = appr. US$ 13.57 Seller: A Book for all Reasons
- Book number: 40373
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