Illustrated throughout with a lot of photographs and line drawings. From the author:"The writing of a short general history of any large subject is hound to be something of an exercise in the art of cramming quarts into pint pots, and the present work is no exception. I have tried at leas t to touch on all aspects of the history of medieval and later armour hut, because of limited space, I have dealt with some of these less fully than others. As the book is designed primarily to satisfy the long-felt need for an up-to date English text-book on armour it seemed to me that the main emphasis should be placed on providing hasic information; I have therefore devoted over three-quarters of it to an account of the evolution of field armour, chiefly from the point of view of form and construction. A particular difficulty that faces all writers on the evolution of armour arises from the fact that, although all the parts of a harness* belong together, they developed independently. I have accordingly treated them independently in the hope that the reader will be able to obtain an adequate impression of the development of the complete armour from a study of the half-tone plates."

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