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Click to enlargeCastles and Warfare in the Middle Ages

Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc
M. Macdermott
Our Price$14.95New!(Table of Contents)
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ISBN: 0486440206
Page Count: 288
Dimensions: 5 3/8 x 8 1/2
Profusely illustrated discussions offer details of dungeons, keeps, battlements, and drawbridges, along with uses of artillery, trenches, battering rams, mines, and the long-bow. "Will enthrall anyone interested in architecture, military, or medieval history. It is equally accessible to scholars as it is to the general reader." — History in Review.

Unabridged republication of An Essay on the Military Architecture of the Middle Ages, published by J. H. and J. Parker, Oxford and London, 1860.

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