Firepower: How Weapons Shaped Warfare

The “fascinating” (Wall Street Journal) story of how military technology has transformed the world

The history of warfare cannot be fully understood without considering the technology of killing. In¿Firepower, acclaimed historian Paul Lockhart tells the story of the evolution of weaponryand how ittransformednot onlythe conduct of warfarebut also the very structure of powerin the West,from the Renaissance to the dawn of the atomic era.

Across this period, improvementsinfirepowershapedtheevol...