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A history of Greek fire and gunpowder

by J. R. Partington

1999 381 pages eng

This scholarly compendium is almost an obituary of chemical explosives, rules as the ultimate arbiters of human affairs. It is about a persistence of human dilemma, struggle for power and preservation of the secret which stand an uncommonly high standard of "security"

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