Annals of a Fortress: Twenty-two Centuries of Siege Warfare - Softcover

Viollet-le-Duc, Eugene-Emmanuel

 
9781853674297: Annals of a Fortress: Twenty-two Centuries of Siege Warfare
Softcover
ISBN 10: 185367429X ISBN 13: 9781853674297
Verlag: Greenhill Books, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

An evocative examination of siege warfare and fortifications, written as the life story of an imagined French castle, by a noted military engineer and architect who served in the Franco-Prussian war.

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Reseña del editor

The wonderfully atmospheric life story of a fortress Colorfully charts the development of fortification and the art of the siege This brilliant evocative work is one of the greatest and most unusual books ever written on siewarfare and fortifications. In prose, Viollet-le-Duc recreates the life of a French castle from its obscure origins to its fate in the Franco-Prussian War. As an architect and experienced military engineer Viollet-le-Duc was uniquely placed to write on the history of fortifications. In Annals of a Fortress he examines the life of the imaginery castle of La Roche-Pont as it endures numerous protracted and bitter sieges. Viollet-le-Duc was a noted military engineer, serving in the Franco-Prussian War, and architectural historian. He was the author of Military Architecture.

Reseña del editor

The Fortress whose transmutations durinj successive ages are so vividly described in the following pages is an ideal one ;its supposed situation is on the Cousin, an affluent of the Sa6ne. The practical genius of the author indicates the position which, in view of the new eastern frontier, should be fortified in order to command the Sadne. To his unrivalled talent as an architect, Monsieur Viollet-le-D uc adds the highest qualifications of the military engineer. In this branch of applied science he is a recognised authority ;and it may not be out of place to notice here that he was frequently consulted by the late Emperor respecting the permanent defences of the country. It is not too much to assert that if his recommendations had been carried out the investment of Paris would have been rendered impossible, whilst the progress of the German invasion elsewhere would have been attended with greater difficulties. As colonel of engineers, no officer displayed greater energy, skill, or bravery, hi the defence of the cit) ;and every operation planned and directed by him during the siege was successful.
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Verlag
Greenhill Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
185367429X
ISBN 13 
9781853674297
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
288
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