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A handy guide to nearly 140 of Scotland's most dramatic castles and strongholds, all of which are open to the public.Optimised for colour tablets. The images in this ebook are not …

This is one of the great untold stories of the twentieth century.It is a first-hand account of a mission by an SAS soldier sent behind the Iron Curtain by MI6 to find someone who …

Dr Stephen Turnbull is internationally recognised for his research into and writing on Japanese military history. Here he applies his scholarship to an account of the evolution of …

The capture of Jerusalem by the First Crusade in 1099 signalled the beginning of an armed struggle in Palestine and throughout the Eastern Mediterranean which lasted until the …

The essays in this book, Royal Castles and Palaces - Symbolic Values in Modern Times, stem from a seminar in a project called Royal History arranged by the Axel and Margaret Ax:son …

Billy Colfer's Wexford Castles expands the IRISH LANDSCAPES series by taking a thematic approach, while still staying loyal to the central landscape focus. Rather than adapting a …

Edinburgh Castle is one of Scotland’s great historic landmarks. The city’s most prominent feature, it stands on a volcanic crag that has been occupied since the Bronze Age. This …

Between 1639 and 1660, more than 1,000 places across England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales were fortified. These included towns and villages, castles and manor houses, as well as …

I kraft af sin strategiske beliggenhed og som sæde for den danske kongemagt og mødested for det middelalderlige danske parlament, Danehoffet, indtager Nyborg en vigtig plads i …

It has been said in China that a city without a wall would be as inconceivable as a house without a roof. Even the smallest village invariably had some form of defensive wall, …