Weapons, as an integral attribute of humanity, accompany it throughout its existence. Since the birth of the first people, there has also been a need to defend ourselves from enemies attacking our home, to hunt animals to feed the family. With the development of people's mental abilities, more and more convenient, refined and sophisticated varieties of deadly devices are being born, The Book Illustrated History of Weapons offers, together with the author, to go through all the stages of the formation of this sphere in detail, to get acquainted with the most interesting representatives of cold, firearms and other types of weapons.