Author: Kenneth WigginsPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780851158273
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
A rare, well-preserved example of the specialised military mining techniques employed in siege warfare.
Anatomy of a Siege
Author: Kenneth WigginsPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780851158273
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
A rare, well-preserved example of the specialised military mining techniques employed in siege warfare.
Siege Warfare and Military Organization in the Successor States (400-800 AD)
Author: Leif Inge Ree PetersenPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004254463
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 850
Book Description
Siege Warfare and Military Organization in the Successor States is the first study to comprehensively treat an aspect of Byzantine, Western, early Islamic, Slavic and Steppe military history within the framework of common descent from Roman military organization to 800 AD. This not only encompassed the army proper, but also a greater complex of client management, private military retinues, labor obligations and civilian conscription in urban defense that were systematically developed by the Romans around 400, and survived to be adopted and adapted by all successors. The result was a common post-Roman military culture suitable for more restrained economic circumstances but still able to maintain, defend and attack city walls with skills rivalling those of their Roman forebears.
The Great Siege
Author: Stephen SpiteriPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hospitalers
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Anatomy Under Siege
Author: E. N. KeenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Human anatomy
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
The History of the Siege of Lisbon
Author: José SaramagoPublisher: HMH
ISBN: 0547540345
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
A proofreader realizes his power to edit the truth on a whim, in a “brilliantly original” novel by a Nobel Prize winner (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Raimundo Silva is a middle-aged, celibate clerk, proofing manuscripts for a respectable publishing house. Fluent in Portuguese, he has been assigned to work on a standard history of the country, and the twelfth-century king who laid siege to Lisbon. In a moment of subversive daring, Raimundo decides to change just one single word of text—a capricious revision that completely undoes the past. When discovered, his insolent disregard for facts appalls his employers—save for his new editor, Maria Sara. She suggests that Rainmundo take his transgressions even further. Through Rainmundo and Maria’s eyes, what transpires is an alternate view of history and a colorful reinvention of a debatable truth. It’s a serpentine journey through time where past and present converge, fact becomes myth, and fiction and reality blur—especially for Rainmundo and Maria themselves, who begin to find themselves erotically drawn to each other. “Walter Mitty has nothing on Raimundo Silva . . . this hypnotic tale is a great comic romp through history, language and the imagination.” —Publishers Weekly Translated by Giovanni Pontiero
The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia: Anatomy
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
The History of Warfare
Author: Matthew BennettPublisher: Chartwell Books
ISBN: 0785834613
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The History of Warfare blends beautiful art and diagrams with engaging and informative modern text to narrate Man's timeless capacity for waging war.
Anatomy of the Castle
Author: John GibsonPublisher: MetroBooks (NY)
ISBN: 9781586631949
Category : Castles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This volume traces the origins of castles -- the fortified structures that were built by nobility in Europe and the Middle East, during the Middle Ages -- from Iron Age hill forts to feudal kingdoms through the Crusader era, post-Medieval, and into early modern times, when longbows, battering rams, and catapults were replaced by cannon and mortar. The author details all the key castle types, and includes examples from all over the world. This work features more than two hundred full-color photographs and provides close-up details and diagrams that illustrate the evolution of elements of the castle from dungeons to battlement.
Siege
Author: Roberta CulbertsonPublisher: Howell Press
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
On August 2, 1990, Iraqi soldiers surged into Kuwait City, surrounding the American Embassy and trapping Ambassador Nathaniel Howell, the embassy staff, and a frightened contingent of American citizens inside the gates. By mid-December they were all safely home. Siege is the inspiring story of how they survived.
Author: Kay W. Sieg