Chariot, The Rise & Fall of the 1st War Machine by Arthur Cotterell: NEW 2004 1st Ed.HB

Author: Arthur Cotterell

Publisher: Pimlico Publications

Year published: 2004

Pagination: 344pp illustrations

Condition: Old NEW Stock, Fine/Mint

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The chariot changed the face of ancient warfare. First in West Asia and Egypt, then in India and China, charioteers dominated the battlefield. In 1274 BC at Kadesh in present-day Syria - where the untried pharaoh Ramesses II was nearly defeated by the Hittites - 5,000 chariots were deployed in battle. Its use as a war machine is graphically recounted in Indian epics and Chinese chronicles. Homer's Iliad tells of the attack on Troy by Greek heroes who rode in chariots. In 326 BC Alexander the Great faced charioteers in northern India, while in 55 BC, on a Kent beach, Julius Caesar was met by British chariots