Secrets of warfare : exposing the myths and hidden history of weapons and battles / William Weir.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-243) and index.

Myth #1: Western military superiority dates from ancient times -- Myth #2: The ancient Greeks refused to use poisoned arrows -- Myth #3: cavalry ruled the battlefield in the Middle Ages -- Myth #4: Plate armor was enormously heavy -- Myth #5: the English longbow was a phenomenal weapon -- Myth #6: the world's biggest guns reduced Constantinople -- Myth #7: guns made armor obsolete -- Myth #8: the Monitor and the Merrimack staged the first ironclad duel -- Myth #9: When the Revolution began, tthe American colonies split three ways -- Myth #10: the American long rifle was the best rifle in the world -- Myth #11: American Revolutionary troops seldom fought from cover -- Myth #12: the American Civil War saw the first use of submarines -- Myth #13: the British band played "The world turned upside down" at Yorktown -- Myth #14: Union troops always outnumbered the Confederates -- Myth #15: the only aircraft in the Civil War were tethered balloons -- Myth #16: Custer's Last Stand was his last because the Indians had repeaters -- Myth #17: Latin American warfare was never serious -- Myth #18: the .45 automatic helped conquer the Philippines -- Myth #19: the bayonet is indispensible -- Myth # 20: German tanks were invincible -- Myth #21: Lance Corporal Hitler was a military moron -- Myth #22: nuclear missiles are the ultimate weapons -- Myth #23: Douglas MacArthur was our greatest \ military hero -- Myth #24: Harry Truman desegregated the armed forces in 1948 -- Myth #25: there was no Korean War after peace talks began -- Myth #26: Dwight Eisenhower ended the Korean War -- Myth #27: the majority of the troops in Vietnam were minorities -- Myth #28: there were two attacks on American ships in the Gulf of Tonkin -- Myth #29: Khe Sanh survived a terrible siege.