Chariot : From Chariot to Tank, the Astounding Rise of the World's First War Machine

from Shrike58

While the author has pulled together an amazing amount of information on the history of the chariot from Europe to China, the impact of this book is undermined by a number of points. For one, Cotterell would have been better served by a thematic or a chronological organization; at points the book...

from Shrike58

While the author has pulled together an amazing amount of information on the history of the chariot from Europe to China, the impact of this book is undermined by a number of points. For one, Cotterell would have been better served by a thematic or a chronological organization; at points the book...

from NielsenGW

There are two great inventions in the early history of humanity: writing and wheels. While writing helped transmit information from place to place faster, the wheel actually got people from place to place faster. Attach newly domesticated horses to the front of a basket with wheel and you have yo...

from setnahkt

Not quite what I was looking for. I'm trying to follow up on various earlier discussions about the use of the horse in antiquity, so I figured a book titled Chariot would be a sure thing. Unfortunately, this is more of a history of the times and places where chariots were in use, rather than a hi...