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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Brevard, Katherine McLean.     Subjects     Firearms -- Juvenile literature.     Weapons -- Juvenile literature.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Brevard, Katherine McLean.       by title:      The story of guns : ...         MARC Display

The story of guns : how they changed the world / by Katherine McLean Brevard. by Brevard, Katherine McLean. Minneapolis, Minn. : Compass Point Books, 2010. Subjects Firearms -- Juvenile literature.   Weapons -- Juvenile literature. ISBN:  9780756543136 (library binding) 0756543134 (library binding) Series:  World transformed. Description:  48 p. ill. ; 24 cm. Contents:  From "fire medicine" to firepower -- Guns go portable -- Firearms pf early America -- Weapons of the wild West -- Guns go automatic -- Weapons of war -- Spread of arms -- World transformed by violence. Requests:  0 Summary:  When the Chinese invented gunpowder in 850, their explosive invention became the basis for almost every weapon used in war. It radically changed warfare all over the world, affecting the way battles were fought throughout the Middle Ages. When guns were invented five centuries later, the world was again transformed. Explosive weaponry was available to the individual, creating a new class of soldier and giving birth to the modern army.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library J -- Juvenile Nonfiction 303.483 Br Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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