This large format hardbound book, profusely
illustrated, is titled The Illustrated History
of WEAPONRY: From Flint Axes to Automatic Weapons (by accomplished reference author Chuck Wills in association with the Berman Museum of World History in Anniston, Alabama, Hylas Publishing, Irvington, New York, 2007, 240 pp. ISBN 978-0-7607-8444-0 and available through Barnes & Noble). Offered here is a historical survey of human weapons from pre-historic person-to-person clubbing (e.g. poggamogins) and stabbing tools (knives, daggers, swords) through the development of distance implements like the atlatl, the bow, longbow, and crossbow to firearms of all types and capabilities. An astonishingly wide survey of weapons particular to diverse civilizations is shown--from Greece and Persia to Europe, Russia and Asia, to Africa, the Pacific, and the indigenous cultures of North and South America. Many
interesting sidebars on interesting historical events and personages are provided. Author Wills writes incisively and entertainingly as he comments on the changing use of weaponry in the history of human civilization. Appendices include a glossary, a bibliography, an essay about the Berman Museum of World History, and an index.