Besieged: Seven Cities Under Siege

by J. Bowyer Bell

Book Overview

J. Bowyer Bell's Beseiged is built on the premise that as long as men have constructed walls, other men have tried to scale them. From ancient Jericho and Joshua's trumpet to London and the onslaught of the Luftwaffe, people have always devised cunning weapons, with all the skills at their command, to breach such barriers and invade the camps and fortified places of their enemies.

Beseiged is the story of seven great modern sieges: Madrid...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138519456
• ISBN13: 9781138519459
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"