Provides a brief history of warfare all the way through from the early charioteers and spear throwers, through Roman legions, knights, and siege machines, through to musketeers and the military arms used in the two world wars, then all the way through to the use of smart weapons today.

Includes index.

Ancient warfare : 7th Century BCE to 168 BCE -- The Roman war machine : 4th Century BCE to 476 AD -- Raiders and invaders : 476 to 1100 -- Knights and castles : 1100 to 1452 -- Gunpowder and guns : 1453 to 1750 -- The Seven Years' War : 1755 to 1764 -- The American War of Independence : 1775 to 1783 -- Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars : 1792 to 1815 -- American Civil War : 1861 to 1865 -- Empires and rifles : 1840 to 902 -- World War I : 1914 to 1918 -- The Cold War era : 1945 to 1989 -- Modern warfare : 1980 to today.