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This book offers a detailed account of how armour developed through the Medieval, Tudor, Elizabethan and Civil War eras, carefully itemizing the subtle changes over a six hundred year period. Each chapter focuses on an individual area of body protection, charting the evolution of each piece over time, from helmets and chest protection to arm guards, gauntlets, leg guards and sabatons. The book also encompasses the use of weaponry and its evolution, including protection for the horse

"Tödliche Chemikalien wurden schon vor Jahrhunderten für Straftaten oder in Kriegen eingesetzt. Der jüngste Einsatz von Chemiewaffen erfolgte im aktuellen Syrienkonflikt und führte Berichten zufolge zum Tod von etwa 1.400 Zivilisten, darunter einige hundert Kinder. Insbesondere dieser Vorfall lenkte die öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit jetzt wieder auf diese alte, inhumane und unterschiedslose Art, zu töten und Krieg zu führen." (Autorenreferat)

AbstractThe demise of the Cold War in the late 1980s catalyzed a dramatic reduction in standing armies and widespread
closure of military bases throughout the two competing alliances, the Warsaw Treaty Organization
(WTO), also known as the Warsaw Pact, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Similarly, the dismemberment of the WTO and the breakup of the Soviet Union have led to major reductions in
Russian and East European forces. These historic contractions in Russian, American, and allied militaries at the
end of the twentieth century and the Cold War have presented a number of major challenges to each country. One
major challenge is environmental—how to destroy millions of tons of obsolete, dangerous, and costly war
munitions and weapons inventories, and how to clean up the polluted legacies that capital‐intensive
militaries have left behind on military bases and civilian communities. This article traces the development of
mechanisms to increase the role of citizens in public decision making involving post–Cold War
demilitarization and environmental cleanup. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.