Grenades and Mortars (Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century: Weapons Book, No. 37)

159 pp. A treatise of 1887 dismissed hand grenades as relics; mortars, too, received small praise. yet both were to be resurrected with devasting effect. Within thirty years more hand grenades would be hurled in one week than in the whole of history prior to 1887, and few weapons became so feared and hated by their victims as mortars.