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Bronze Age War Chariots

By: Osprey

Type: Softcover

Product Line: New Vanguard - Aircraft & Miscellaneous

MSRP old price: $19.00


Product Info

Title
Bronze Age War Chariots
Publisher
Category
Author
Nic Fields
Publish Year
2006
Pages
48
Dimensions
8x10x.25"
NKG Part #
2147398651
MFG. Part #
OSPNVG119
Type
Softcover
Series
NVG119

Description

Chariots, the first mobile fighting vehicle, seem to have originated in Mesopotamia in the third millennium BC. The highly mobile two-wheeled war chariot, carrying a driver and an archer armed with a short composite bow, revolutionized military tactics after 1700 BC. This expensive weapon spread throughout the Middle East and is thought to have reached Egypt with the conquering Hyksos. It spread into Asia Minor, Greece, and was known in Northern Europe by 1500 BC. This book covers the evolution of the war chariot throughout the Bronze Age, detailing its design, development and combat history – in particular its fundamental involvement at the battle of Qadesh.