The Handy Military History Answer Book. Samuel Willard Crompton

      

      About the Author

      Sam Crompton, holding a powder horn, poses by the Soldier’s Memorial in Northampton, Massachusetts (photo: Dieu Etinde).

      Samuel Willard Crompton is the author or editor of many books written for a variety of publishers. Though he has written for children, teenagers, and adults, one of the constants of his career is that military topics have often played a major role. He has been a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow on several occasions, the most recent of which was “The Civil War in Trans-National Perspective,” held at New York University. Crompton teaches history at Holyoke Community College in his native Massachusetts.

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      Contents

PHOTO CREDITS

DEDICATION

INTRODUCTION

IRON, STONE, AND BRONZE: 3000 TO 320 B.C.E.