from: Profile Publications Ltd.
Type of bind: Hardcover
Format: Illustrated
Label: Profile Publications Ltd.
Manufacturer: Profile Publications Ltd.
Printing Date: 1968
Publishing house: Profile Publications Ltd.
Sale Popularity Level: 3389828
Studio: Profile Publications Ltd.
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Product Description:
The Military history of our century opened in earnest on an August day in 1914; and the six decades that followe have shown beyond doubt that mankind's leaning towards violenceas the solution to all problems, while perhaps diminishing in the individual, is a constantly and hideously ascending curve at a national level. In August 1914 the world's battlefields were ruled by sheer weight of gunpowder and steel , and horsed cavalry was still a realistic weapon; the handful of flimsy 'heavier-than-air' machines which sputtered over the heads of the grey and khaki legions were an interesting and slightly ridiculous novelty, with perhaps some small value as mobile reconnaissance posts. A little more than sixty years later, air power is accepted without question as the decisive weapon in any major nation's armoury; and one man, riding a 2,000 mile-an-hour thunderbolt, can slaughter millions in a poisoned firestorm at the mere touch of a switch.
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