Gunpowder alchemy, bombards, and pyrotechnics : the history of the explosive that changed the world
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New York :
Basic Books,
c2004.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: the devil's distillate
- Fire drug
- Thundring noyse
- The most pernicious arts
- The devills birds
- Villainous saltpetre
- Conquest's crimson wing
- Nitro-aerial spirit
- No one reasons
- What victory costs
- History out of control
- The meeting of heaven and earth
- Appalling grandeur
- The old article
- Epilogue: something new.
