The New York Times

GUNPOWDER.; The Discovery and History of Explosive Powders and Other Ammunitions.*

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Publishers Weekly

Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, and Pyrotechnics: The History of the Explosive That Changed the World

A novelist and popular history writer, Kelly traces the history of gunpowder from 10th-century China to the late 19th century, when it was supplanted by Alfred Nobel's nitroglycerin. Kelly takes ...
The New York Times

Gunpowder Rebbed of its Terrors.

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