The Book Of The Crossbow

Author : Ralph Payne-Galloway
Publisher : Aegitas
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9785678757869

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The book of the crossbow by Ralph Payne-Galloway Pdf

One of the most devastating weapons of the Middle Ages, the crossbow probably originated in the Western Roman Empire early in the fourth century, its design perhaps suggested by the balista, an ancient form of catapult. The medieval crossbow fired a twelve-inch bolt (quarrel) capable of piercing all but the strongest armor and is widely credited with helping Richard the Lionhearted defeat the Saracens at the battle of Arfus during the Third Crusade. and nbsp; and nbsp; and nbsp;Despite the fact that crossbows were carried by thousands of soldiers in medieval warfare, this book is the only work ever devoted exclusively to this widely used weapon. In addition to detailing the history of the crossbow and its military and sporting uses, the author also deals with an arsenal of related weapons, from the siege engines, balistas and catapults of the ancients to such arms as the Turkish bow and the Chinese repeating crossbow. and nbsp; and nbsp; and nbsp;Enhanced with over 200 illustrations, ranging from contemporary battle pictures to scale constructional plans, and replete with scholarly detail and intriguing anecdotes, this classic study will interest historians, medievalists, sportsmen and any student of arms and armor.

Author : Mike Loades
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781472824615

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The Crossbow by Mike Loades Pdf

Technologically sophisticated and powerful, the crossbow has long enjoyed a popular reputation for villainous superiority because it could be used with little training as a weapon of assassination. The study of bow designs, trigger mechanisms and spanning devices reveals a tale of considerable mechanical ingenuity; advances that produced a battlefield weapon requiring comparatively little training to use. It was an extremely useful weapon, and especially effective in siege warfare for both attack and defence. Known to the Ancient Greeks and the Chinese as early as the 5th century BC, the crossbow developed both in Western Europe and in the Far East. Advances in trigger mechanisms, spanning and bow design allowed the development of ever more powerful bows. In this study acknowledged weaponry expert Mike Loades traces the origins, development, combat record and lasting legacy of the crossbow, the formidable projectile weapon that played a key role in a host of battles and sieges across Europe and Asia.

Author : William Hovey Smith
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780811742733

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Crossbow Hunting by William Hovey Smith Pdf

Evaluations of different crossbows on the market today and how to select the right arrow, points, and sights. Shooting and hunting techniques for deer, bear, hogs, and elk. Classic crossbow hunts for big game in Africa, musk ox in the Canadian arctic, and water buffalo in Australia.

Author : Ralph Payne-Gallwey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1123144475

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The Book of the Crossbow by Ralph Payne-Gallwey Pdf

Author : Dayle Campbell Gaetz
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781554695966

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Crossbow by Dayle Campbell Gaetz Pdf

Fourteen-year-old Matt has only one goal in life: to become a hermit. He has no use for school, but he loves the solitude of the forest. When he hikes up to the cabin he built for himself, he discovers a mysterious stranger named Forrest has moved in. At first, Matt doesn't connect Forrest's appearance with the rash of local robberies. Forrest seems to be the perfect hermit, and he teaches Matt the skills he needs to achieve his goal, including how to hunt with a crossbow. But when Forrest tries to kill an endangered Roosevelt elk, Matt questions the ethics of his new friend. When Matt discovers a stolen rifle in his cabin, he finds himself trapped in a dangerous situation.

Author : Don Bendell
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628151046

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Crossbow by Don Bendell Pdf

Author : Mike Loades
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472825520

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War Bows by Mike Loades Pdf

War bows dominated battlefields across the world for centuries. In their various forms, they allowed trained archers to take down even well-armoured targets from great distances, and played a key role in some of the most famous battles in human history. The composite bow was a versatile and devastatingly effective weapon, on foot, from chariots and on horseback for over a thousand years, used by cultures as diverse as the Hittites, the Romans, the Mongols and the Ottoman Turks. The Middle Ages saw a clash between the iconic longbow and the more technologically sophisticated crossbow, most famously during the Hundred Years War, while in Japan, the samurai used the yumi to deadly effect, unleashing bursts of arrows from their galloping steeds. Historical weapons expert Mike Loades reveals the full history of these four iconic weapons that changed the nature of warfare. Complete with modern ballistics testing, action recreations of what it is like to fire each bow and a critical analysis of the technology and tactics associated with each bow, this book is a must-have for anyone interested in ancient arms.

Author : Ralph Payne-Gallwey
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781473340596

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The Crossbow - Mediaeval and Modern Military and Sporting it's Construction, History, and Management with a Treatise on the Balista and Catapult of the Ancients and an Appendix on the Catapult, Balista and the Turkish Bow by Ralph Payne-Gallwey Pdf

This vintage book contains a treatise on a variety of ancient projective weapons, with a special focus on ancient and mediaeval Catapults and Balistas. With fascinating historical information and complete descriptions of the various weapons discussed, this volume will appeal to those with an interest in historical ballistic weaponry and would make for a worthy addition to collections of related literature. Contents include: "The history of the Crossbow, with notes Comparative on the Longbow and Handgun", "The Construction and Management of Crossbows: Mediaeval", "The Construction and Management of Crossbows--(continued): Modern", "A Treatise on the Siege Engines used in Ancient and Mediaeval Times for Discharging Great Stones and Arrows", et cetera. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

Author : Allan Williams
Publisher : Random House
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781409051732

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Operation Crossbow by Allan Williams Pdf

The story of the photographic intelligence work undertaken from a country house at Medmenham, Buckinghamshire, is one of the great lost stories of the Second World War . At its peak in 1944, almost 2,000 British and American men and women worked at the top-secret Danesfield House, interpreting photographs - the majority stereoscopic so they could be viewed in 3D - to unlock secrets of German military activity and weapons development. Millions of aerial photographs were taken by Allied pilots, flying unarmed modified Spitfires and Mosquitos on missions over Nazi Europe. it was said that an aircraft could land, the photographs be developed and initial interpretation completed within two hours - marking the culmination of years of experiments in aerial intelligence techniques. Their finest hour began in 1943, during the planning stages of the Allied invasion of Europe, when Douglas Kendall, who masterminded the interpretation work at Medmenham, led the hunt for Hitler's secret weapons. Operation Crossbow would grow from a handful of photographic interpreters to the creation of a hand-picked team, and came to involve interpreters from across the Medmenham spectrum, including the team of aircraft specialists led by the redoubtable Constance Babington Smith. In November that year, whilst analysing photographs of Peenemunde in northern Germany, they spotted a small stunted aircraft on a ramp. This intelligence breakthrough linked the Nazi research station with a growing network of sites in northern France, where ramps were being constructed aligned not only with London, but targets throughout southern Britain. Through the combined skill and dedication of the Crossbow team and the heroism of the Allied pilots, throughout late 1943 and 1944 V-weapon launch sites were located and through countermeasures destroyed, saving hundreds of thousands of lives, and changing the course of the war. Operation Crossbow is a wonderful story of human endeavour and derring-do, told for the first time.

Author : Matt Landrus
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783540689188

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Leonardo da Vinci’s Giant Crossbow by Matt Landrus Pdf

Although Leonardo’s Giant Crossbow is one of his most popular drawings, it has been one of the least understood. "Leonardo’s Giant Crossbow" offers the first in-depth account of this drawing’s likely purpose and its highly resolved design. This fascinating book has a wealth of technical information about the Giant Crossbow drawing, as it’s a complete study of this project, though this is as accessible to the general audience as much as it is also informative with new discoveries for the professors of engineering, technology and art. The book explores the context of Leonardo’s invention with an examination of the extensive documentary evidence, a short history of the great crossbow and ballista, the first accurate translation of the text and the technical specifications, and a detailed analysis of Leonardo’s design process for the crossbow, from start to finish. Dozens of preparatory drawings, along with the recent discovery of nearly invisible metal stylus preparatory incisions under the ink of the Giant Crossbow drawing, are evidence of Leonardo’s intent to offer engineers and other viewers a thorough design of the massive machine. The book proposes these new discoveries with the help of a strategy that had been at the core of Leonardo’s working philosophy: the proportional method. As proven with an analysis of the Giant Crossbow project, he used a consistent approach to 1/3rd proportions throughout the design and drawing process and employed this kind of proportional strategy at the start of almost every important project. Thanks to this proof of his knowledge of geometry, evidence of his studies of impetus and force, and thanks to the highly polished and complex nature of the Giant Crossbow design, a later date for the drawing is proposed in the present book, associating the drawing with his drafting capabilities around 1490-93.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-07
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781843584537

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Crossbow Cannibal by Anonim Pdf

A major search and recovery operation began when a young woman's remains were recovered in the River Aire in May 2010. Police had been investigating the disappearance of Shelley Armitage and Susan Rushworth who had gone missing in 2009; but the remains belonged to Suzanne Blamires and were to unravel a gruesome and horrifying chain of events. 40-year-old PhD student Stephen Griffiths was arrested by West Yorkshire Police after CCTV footage of him attacking Ms Blamires at his block of flats was discovered by a caretaker at the complex. She was shot with a crossbow. Once arrested Griffiths told Police: "I've killed a lot more than Suzanne Blamires -- I've killed loads." Adding gruesomely that he had "eaten some of her". Griffiths possessed disturbing video recordings and images in his flat and police found blood from both Ms Armitage and Ms Rushworth linking them to Griffiths. Having admitted to murdering Suzanne Blamires, 36, Shelley Armitage, 31, and 43-year-old Susan Rushworth, who worked as prostitutes in the Bradford area, Griffiths, who called himself the Crossbow Cannibal was jailed for life for their "wicked and monstrous" murders. This is the full story of the man known as the 'Crossbow Cannibal', whose chillingly evil actions brought terror to the streets of Bradford.

Author : Richard A Wilson Esq
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798642187913

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The Death by Bunjie Crossbow Story by Richard A Wilson Esq Pdf

This is the tell-all tale of hunting with the same crossbow for a decade. Detailed exploits of Bunjie, the crossbow, and lessons learned by the hunter who carried him make this book an enjoyable and informative reading experience. You will be a better hunter if you read this book! Well, at least you will be happier one. Although some of the stories in this book will be familiar to Friends of Bunjie who follow the YouTube channel, Death by Bunjie, there are plenty of surprises in this book to make it a must-read. Will you even learn how Bunjie got its name? There is only one way to find out. Read this book!

Author : Ralph Payne-Gallwey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1473329205

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The Book of the Crossbow (History of Archery Series) by Ralph Payne-Gallwey Pdf

This vintage book contains a treatise on a variety of ancient projective weapons, with a special focus on Greek and Roman Catapults and Balistas. With fascinating historical information and complete descriptions of the various weapons discussed, this volume will appeal to those with an interest in historical ballistic weaponry. Contents include: "The Catapult and Balista," "The Turkish Composite Bow," "The Turkish Bow. Construction ad Dimension," "The Bow-String," "The Arrow," "The Method of Stringing a Turkish, Persian or Indian Bow," "The Horne Groove," "The Thumb-Ring," "Composite Bows of Various Oriental Nations," et cetera. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern edition complete with an introductory essay on History of Archery by Horace A. Ford.

Author : John O'Bryan
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781452110547

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A History of Weapons by John O'Bryan Pdf

Discover the truth about strange and ancient weapons like the atlatl, the sarissa, the urumi and the maka pahoa ko'oko'o in this fascinating history of weapons.

Author : Laura Crombie
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783271047

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Archery and Crossbow Guilds in Medieval Flanders, 1300-1500 by Laura Crombie Pdf

First full study devoted to the archery and crossbow guilds which grew up in Flanders in the middle ages.