Book Review - "WEAPON"

"Weapon, A visual history of arms and armor" by DK Publishing is one of the prettiest coffee-table books I've had. Besides the detailed pics for the browser-reader of arms and armor throughout recorded history, the researcher and publishers of this hefty book have included some of the more obscure developments that have come out of man's imagination for killing each other. My personal favs fall in the incorporation of traditional axes, swords, and halberds with the early infancy of firearms. How would you like to go up against a c.1610 German wielding a 6 1/2 pound "Ax Match-and-Wheelock" with five barrels hidden in the head and a sixth in the shaft. Those kooky Germans.