Castles Under Siege

Author : Andrew Solway
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
ISBN 13 : 9781410919496
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Castle Under Siege! written by Andrew Solway and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2005 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the simple machines used to build and defend castles, including pulleys, levers, wheels and axles, wedges, and screws.

Author : Andrew Solway
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN 13 : 9781410919182
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Castle Under Siege! written by Andrew Solway and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2005 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why were castles built and how were they defended? How would an enemy attempt to takeover a castle? Find out in this title filled with facts and charts.

Author : Richard Dargie
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9781404242944
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Castles Under Siege written by Richard Dargie and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2007-12-15 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the history of siege warfare and castle defense in medieval Europe, with information on preparation for a siege, methods of attack and defense, sack and pillage.

Author : Andrew Langley
Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Castle at War written by Andrew Langley and published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). This book was released on 1998 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes, in brief text and illustrations, how the inhabitants of a medieval castle prepared for war and endured a siege.

Author : Richard Dargie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780817281212
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Castle Under Siege written by Richard Dargie and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the siege of castles throughout Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East beginning with the Gauls' attempt to take Rome in 390 B.C. and ending in the fifteenth century.

Author : Jim Bradbury
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780851153575
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Medieval Siege written by Jim Bradbury and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1992 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In medieval warfare, the siege predominated: for every battle, there were hundreds of sieges. Yet the rich and vivid history of siege warfare has been consistently neglected. Jim Bradbury's panoramic survey takes the history of siege warfare in Europe from the late Roman Empire to the 16th century, and includes sieges in Byzantium, Eastern Europe and the areas affected by the Crusades. Within this broad sweep of time and place, he finds, not that enormous changes occurred, but that the rules and methods of siege warfare remained remarkably constant. Included are detailed studies of some of the major sieges including Constantinople and Chateau-Gaillard. Throughout, Bradbury supports his narrative with chronicles and letters. irst-hand accounts of danger, famine and endurance bring the acute reality of siege warfare clearly before the reader.

Author : Charity Cannon Willard
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271043050
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry written by Charity Cannon Willard and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is unexpected in any era to find a woman writing a book on the art of warfare, but in the fifteenth century it was unbelievable. Not surprisingly, therefore, Christine de Pizan's The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry, written around 1410, has often been regarded with disdain. Many have assumed that Christine was simply copying or pilfering earlier military manuals. But, as Sumner Willard and Charity Cannon Willard show in this faithful English translation, The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry contains much that is original to Christine. As a military manual it tells us a great deal about the strategy, tactics, and technology of medieval warfare and is one of our most important sources for early gunpowder weapon technology. It also includes a fascinating discussion of Just War. Since the end of the fifteenth century, The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry has been available primarily through Antoine Vérard's imprint of 1488 or William Caxton's 1489 translation, The Book of the Order of Chivalry. Vérard even suggested that the work was his own translation of the Roman writer Vegetius, making no mention of Christine 's name. Caxton attributed the work to Christine, but it is impossible to identify the manuscript he used for his translation. Moreoever, both translations are inaccurate. The Willards correct these inaccuracies in a clear and easy-to-read translation, which they supplement with notes and an introduction that will greatly benefit students, scholars, and enthusiasts alike. Publication of this work should change our perception both of medieval warfare and of Christine de Pizan.

Author : Richard Dargie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780750252010
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Castle Under Siege written by Richard Dargie and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series reveals the fascinating aspects of castle life from construction of them to attacks made on them and their defences.

Author : Trevor Yorke
Publisher : Countryside Books (GB)
ISBN 13 : 9781846743665
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Attack a Castle and How to Defend It written by Trevor Yorke and published by Countryside Books (GB). This book was released on 2018-08-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through colorful illustrations and accounts of actual sieges in every chapter, this book describes how armies from medieval times up to the English Civil War attacked and besieged British castles and how changing weaponry shaped the defences we see the remains of today.

Author : Jurgen Brauer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226071650
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Castles, Battles, & Bombs written by Jurgen Brauer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Castles, Battles, and Bombs reconsiders key episodes of military history from the point of view of economics—with dramatically insightful results. For example, when looked at as a question of sheer cost, the building of castles in the High Middle Ages seems almost inevitable: though stunningly expensive, a strong castle was far cheaper to maintain than a standing army. The authors also reexamine the strategic bombing of Germany in World War II and provide new insights into France’s decision to develop nuclear weapons. Drawing on these examples and more, Brauer and Van Tuyll suggest lessons for today’s military, from counterterrorist strategy and military manpower planning to the use of private military companies in Afghanistan and Iraq. "In bringing economics into assessments of military history, [the authors] also bring illumination. . . . [The authors] turn their interdisciplinary lens on the mercenary arrangements of Renaissance Italy; the wars of Marlborough, Frederick the Great, and Napoleon; Grant's campaigns in the Civil War; and the strategic bombings of World War II. The results are invariably stimulating."—Martin Walker, Wilson Quarterly "This study is serious, creative, important. As an economist I am happy to see economics so professionally applied to illuminate major decisions in the history of warfare."—Thomas C. Schelling, Winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics