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Chariot, The - The Astounding Rise and Fall of the World's First War Machine * Hc

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Author: Arthur Cotterell

The chariot changed the face of ancient warfare. This unique book traces the rise and fall of the chariot right across the Old World, from Ireland, through Rome, Greece, Mesopotamia, Egypt, India and China. Illustrated throughout.

Overlook, 2005; 344 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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A cross-cultural study of chariot warfare detailing the chariot's use as a war machine right across the Old World, from Ireland to Korea as well as its ceremonial and religious use in the days of early Mesopotamia right up to twentieth-century filmmakers.