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Military Fortifications
This is the first English-language general bibliography on military fortifications. It deals with the history of fortifications from the earliest times to the present throughout …
The Forts and Fortifications of Europe 1815-1945: The Central States
After the Napoleonic Wars the borders of Central Europe were redrawn and relative peace endured across the region, but the volatile politics of the late nineteenth century …
Scapa Flow
A compact history charting the development of this natural harbor in the Orkney Islands, Britain's most important naval base during World Wars I and II.In 1914 and again in 1939, …
Saracen Strongholds AD 630 1050
The Islamic world drew upon a myriad of pre-existing styles of fortification, taking Romano-Byzantine, Indian and Chinese ideas to create a highly effective and sophisticated …
American Civil War Fortifications (3)
The Mississippi River played a decisive role in the American Civil War. The Confederate fortifications that controlled the lower Mississippi valley were put to the test in the …
Kemp: Warriors in the Snow
Isolated, frozen to the bone and with no way out Kemp is back1356. Burnt Candlemas. King Edward III invades Scotland in the dead of winter to punish the Scots for their recent …
The Companion to Castles
‘A fascinating book that covers the history and development of something that is unique to the Middle Ages – the castle.’ - Medieval HistoryOver 1,000 castles were built in the …
Princely Ambition
While the Edwardian castles of Conwy, Beaumaris, Harlech and Caernarfon are rightly hailed as outstanding examples of castle architecture, the castles of the native Welsh princes …
Channel Islands 1941 45
Following the fall of France and the surrender of Paris on 14 June 1940, the British Government announced that the Channel Islands had no strategic importance and would not be …
A Stage for the King
Along with Hamlets Kronborg at Elsinore, Frederiksborg is the most magnificent early seventeenth-century residence in Northern Europe, visited by thousands of people from all over …
Samurai Castles
Samurai Castles features hundreds of stunning color photographs and little-known details about the most important and well-preserved Samurai castles in Japan, including their …