Preface ix
Introduction The Age of the Gun 1
Book I The Gunpowder Revolution, 1300-1800
Chapter 1 The Bombard and the Fortress 17
Chapter 2 The Ship-Killing Ship 40
Charter 3 Pike and Shot 66
Chapter 4 Musket, Bayonet, and Field Gun 94
Chapter 5 The Military Revolution 122
Book II The Age of Revolutions, 1800-1870
Chapter 6 War and Technology in the Age of Revolutions 139
Chapter 7 The Rifle and the Bullet 154
Chapter 8 Shot and Shell 192
Chapter 9 Ironclad 211
Book III The Revolution in Firepower, 1870-1918
Chapter 10 The Great Arms Race and the Great War 235
Chapter 11 The Rifle and the Bullet Revisited 251
Chapter 12 Full Auto 283
Chapter 13 High Explosive 311
Chapter 14 Dreadnought and U-Boat 345
Chapter 15 The Emerging Technologies: Air and Armor 380
Book IV The Twilight of Firepower, 1918-1945
Chapter 16 The Lessons of the Great War 425
Chapter 17 Portable Firepower 438
Chapter 18 The Big Guns 470
Chapter 19 Airpower 501
Chapter 20 The Twilight of the Battleship 534
Epilogue 555
Notes 563
Index 579