TY - BOOK AU - Dean, Bashford TI - Handbook of Arms and Armor SN - 8130706652 U1 - 739.7 23 PY - 2008/// CY - New Delhi PB - Cosmo Publications N1 - 1. Introduction; 2. The present collection and its arrangement; 3. Earliest arm and armor; 4. Arms and armor of the bronze age and classical antiquity; 5. The early centuries of the christian era; 6. Chain-mail and medieval armor; 7. The period of transition from chain-mail to plate-armor; 8. The period of plate-armor and fire-arms; 9. Questions about armor: Its weight and size; 10. Japanese arm and armor; 11. Arms and armor of the East: Arab, Turkish, Persian, Indian, Chinese ER -