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Fire and stone : the science of fortress warfare, 1660-1860
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ISBN: 9780882543055 0882543059 Year: 1975 Publisher: New York: Hippocrene Books,

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Training for the trenches : a practical handbook based upon personal experience during the first two years of the war in France
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Year: 2014 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Perlego,

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Training for the Trenches is a handbook by Leslie Vickers. It presents the practicalities needed in training for ditch warfare, a battle praxis needed both hundreds of years ago as well as today.


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Training for the trenches : a practical handbook based upon personal experience during the first two years of the war in France
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Year: 2014 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Perlego,

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Training for the Trenches is a handbook by Leslie Vickers. It presents the practicalities needed in training for ditch warfare, a battle praxis needed both hundreds of years ago as well as today.


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The medieval siege
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ISBN: 0851153577 Year: 1996 Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK Rochester, NY Boydell Press

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The art of siege warfare and military architecture from the classical world to the Middle Ages
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ISBN: 1789254078 1789254094 9781789254075 9781789254068 178925406X Year: 2020 Publisher: Oxford

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"The papers in this book present, for the first time, the world of warfare, both defensive and offensive, from the Classical periods to end of the Middle Ages in one collection. These scholarships have attracted ancient writers and generals and nowadays historians, archaeologists and researchers poliorcetics. Military historiography and ancient manuals are well familiar from the Classical period throughout the Hellenistic great battlefields until the end of the Middle Ages, the chronological scope of this codex. The current book is the first to encompass this long array of time while trying to enrich the reader with the continuity, development and regression in the different periods and spheres of the ancient poliorcetics and beyond; the papers presented here are focusing on the physical fortifications, besieging and defense techniques, development and efficiency of ancient projectiles and sieging machinery, battlefields and the historiographical evidence. The X papers of the book are written by some of the best scholars in their field, presenting here for the first time the results of their research, in the west and in the east"--


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Roman siege warfare
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ISBN: 0472029495 Year: 2013 Publisher: Ann Arbor, [Michigan] : University of Michigan Press,

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"Roman siege warfare had its own structure and customs, and expectations both by the besieged and by the attacking army. Sieges are typically sorted by the techniques and technologies that attackers used, but the more fruitful approach offered in Roman Siege Warfare examines the way a siege follows or diverges from typical narrative and operational plotlines. Author Josh Levithan emphasizes the human elements--morale and motivation--rather than the engineering, and he recaptures the sense of a siege as an event in progress that offers numerous attitudes, methods, and outcomes. Sieges involved a concentration of violent effort in space and the practical challenge posed by a high wall: unlike field battles they were sharply defined in time, in space, and in operational terms. Chapters examine motivation and behavior during a siege and focus on examples from both the Roman Republic and the Empire: Polybius, Livy, Julius Caesar, Flavius Josephus, and Ammianus Marcellinus. Levithan examines the "gadgetary turn," during which writers began to lavish attention on artillery and wall-damaging techniques, fetishizing technology and obscuring the centrality of the assault and of human behavior. This volume speaks to classicists and historians of all stripes. All passages are translated, and references are accessible to nonspecialists. Military historians will also find much of interest in the volume, in its treatment both of Roman military conduct and of wider military practice"--

Medieval siege warfare
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ISBN: 0850459478 Year: 1993 Publisher: London : Osprey,

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Medieval siege weapons
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ISBN: 1841762350 9781841762357 1841764590 9781841764597 Year: 2002 Publisher: Oxford Osprey

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Artillery in the era of the Crusades : siege warfare and the development of trebuchet technology
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ISBN: 9004376925 Year: 2018 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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Artillery in the Era of the Crusades provides a detailed examination of the use of mechanical artillery in the Levant through the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Rather than focus on a selection of sensational anecdotes, Michael S. Fulton explores the full scope of the available literary and archaeological evidence, reinterpreting the development of trebuchet technology and the ways in which it was used during this period. Among the arguments put forward, Fulton challenges the popular perception that the invention of the counterweight trebuchet was responsible for the dramatic transformation in the design of fortifications around the start of the thirteenth century.


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The forts and fortifications of Europe, 1815-1945
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ISBN: 147383855X 1473839262 9781473838550 9781848848061 Year: 2014 Publisher: Barnsley, South Yorkshire

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