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The Medieval era was a period of huge variety and invention in the field of siege warfare. Before the use of cannon and other gun-powder artillery, siege engines relied on assorted sources of power from torsion 'energy storage' systems to man-power, counter-balances and others. This book reveals how the combining of technological traditions from the Graeco-Roman world, Persia, India and above all China made a massive contribution to the development of siege techniques. Medieval military engineering was equally inventive in terms of mining, counter-mining, the breaking of walls, the use of noxious and chemical fumes and the use of fire-weapons.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Medieval Siege Weapons
• Author: David Nicolle
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 48
• EAN: 9781841762357
• ISBN: 1841762350
• ID: 04254473
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 182 g
• Dimensions: 248 × 184 × 4 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. September 2002

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