War Elephants (New Vanguard, Volume 150)

By Konstantin Nossov

Elephants were deployed as guns for hundreds of years, quite in South and South-East Asia, the place struggle elephants constituted the majority of so much armies within the quarter from antiquity correct as much as the nineteenth century. This publication bargains an perception into the terrific heritage of those "living tanks," targeting the layout of the apparatus and armament that made them so terrifying, quite the improvement and constitution of the scuffling with tower.

The writer, Konstantin S. Nossov is going directly to hint the conflict background of battle elephants, from their deployment opposed to Alexander the Great's military on the conflict of Gaugamela, via to their use within the nineteenth century by way of the myriad armies of South-East Asia, forever studying the conflict formation and strategies of conflict elephants in motion and the way those strategies replaced through the years. He then is going directly to learn the main recognized motion that battle elephants took half in, Hannibal's dramatic march over the Alps and his next invasion of Italy. Supported through infrequent illustrations and full-color unique art, this ebook is a brilliant account of the advance and operation of 1 of history's most unique "machines of warfare."

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