Warriors and Worthies - Arms and Armor Through the Ages (History Ebook).pdf

Warriors and Worthies: Arms and Armor Through the Ages
Atheneum | 1969 | ISBN: 0689300093 | English | 136 pages | PDF | 20 MB

From his earliest beginnings, Man has had to fight for his survival. Therefore, since earliest times Some of a man's most prized possessions have been his weapons, and the oldest specialized craft in the history of human civilization is hat of the smith, the maker of weapons for hunting and fighting. The things he shaped with hammer and anvil were regarded with reverent awe because they were endowed not only with the power to destroy life—as weapons—but to preserve life, too—as armor