Indestructible Jeep (Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century: Weapons Book, No. 36)

160 pp. For 4,000 years the horse had adapted successfully to advances in technology and military tactics. Bred to carry heavy armour or for speed and endurance, it remained the fastest way of transporting men from place to place. But Nemesis overtook the cavalryman: on to the stage of war, following the unsportsmanlike machine-gun, came the internal combustion engine.