Author: Mike Loades Publisher: Osprey Publishing Price: £30.00
“THE AUTHOR IS PARTICULARLY WELL-PLACED TO WRITE THIS HISTORY, SINCE HE HAS BEEN INTERESTED IN ARCHERY SINCE HE WAS NINE YEARS OF AGE” The bow is perhaps the best-known weapon of ancient times. Indeed the earliest known intact examples, called the Holmegaard bows, were found in Denmark and date back as far as 9000 BCE. However fragments of earlier bows have been found that even predate these, with some believed to be up to 18,000 years old. Bows have famously been taken into battle in the hands of the Hittites, the Egyptians, the Arabs, the Mongols, the Ottoman Turks, the Chinese, and the Japanese, amongst many others. The Europeans, too, made extensive use of bows in countless battles and sieges during the…
