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Chariot: The Astounding Rise and Fall of the World's First War Machine

Door Arthur Cotterell

Categorie	Algemeen Militaria
Boeknummer	#329024-ZA11
Titel	Chariot: The Astounding Rise and Fall of the World's First War Machine
Auteur	Cotterell, Arthur
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	London : Random House
Jaar van uitgave	2004
ISBN10	0712669426
ISBN13	9780712669429
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original blue boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, richly illustrated with b/w illustrations, 8vo.
Samenvatting	The chariot changed the face of ancient warfare. First in Mesopotamia, then in Asia Minor and Egypt, charioteers came to dominate the battlefield. In c. 1286 BC at Kadesh in the Eastern Mediterranean - where the troops of Ramesses II overwhelmed the Hittites - 5,000 chariots were deployed. Its use is recounted in Indian epics and Chinese histories. Homer's Iliad tells of the attack on Troy by Greek charioteers. When Alexander the Great descended into the North Indian plain in early 326BC, he found chariots as well as elephants in the armies ranged against him. After its disappearance from the battlefield, chariot racing attracted hundreds of thousands of spectators. The Emperor Nero drove his own ten-horse chariot in the Olympic Games (he fell out but still won the prize). In Constantinopl... (Lees verder)e in AD 352 a three-day riot, ignited by a chariot race, left over 30,000 people dead after the Emperor Justinian had to send in troops to restore order. This unique book traces the rise and fall of the chariot right across the Old World, from Ireland, through Rome, Greece, Mesopotamia, Egypt, India and China. Illustrated throughout and exploring the chariot's legacy - not least as depicted in Hollywood films - it provides a broad-ranging and fascinating view of the world's first revolutionary war machine.
Pagina's	344
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 8,00

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