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32 pages : colour illustrations Contents: Charging chariots: fast. furious warfare on ancient battlefields -- Shattering battering ram: ripping through gates and ramparts -- Blasting ballista: a mammoth crossbow targeting the foe -- Soaring siege towers: mighty structures for storming castles -- Terrifying trebuchet: launching molten missiles and severed heads -- Gruesome greek fire: a flaming terror from the earliest times -- Booming medieval bombard: the merciless mortar that ended an empire -- Crushing cannon: destroying ships and razing cities -- Tank attack!: the ultimate battlefield vehicle -- Silent, sinister submarines: waging secret war in the deep ocean -- Into battle with mighty machines Summary: In all battle arenas throughout history, massive, devastating engines of war have helped armies to clinch victories and preserve empires. Dynamic, realistic artwork depicts ten massive engines of war wreaking havoc, with fascinating facts about how they were designed as weapons of terror and destruction Warrior