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Title: Castles : Their Construction and History by Sidney Toy ISBN: 0-486-24898-4 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 December, 1985 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Just the facts.
Comment: There is no fluff and no romanticizing. This book is just plain hows and whys on castle construction and their evolution from wooden stockades to stone fortresses. It examines the changes in defenses as warfare evolved. It is dry reading, but this is bare bones information with no fantasizing....just what I wanted.
Rating: 4
Summary: Sometimes too technical, but very helpful!
Comment: I bought this book because, well to put it plainly, I have always wanted to design a castle of my own. Having no real talent for architecture, I thought I'd see how others had done it before, and why they made the decisions they did. This book does a lot for the novice who wants to learn these things, but does so with enough illustrations to keep the readers interest through the text. I can see why another reviewer said it would make a good textbook -- it reads like one, and provides quite the education!
Add it to a military history collection, a chivalric texts collection, or to your Lego room for the next time you want a more powerful castle than the kit suggests (but, putting little lego men heads on pikes at the gates may be going overboard).
Rating: 4
Summary: Castles: Is a highly detailed and technical study.
Comment: As an Army Officer the study of military history is a professional necessity. The book: Castles their Construction and History has proven to be an incredible aid to this end. I am stationed in Europe and use the book as a guide when I travel and explore the castles in Germany, France and Italy. The book is very technical, it wastes some space giving detailed step by step descriptions of many castles but the casual reader of history will find the drawings, photos and overviews of history very interesting. The text of the book is rather dull to the non-history buff. It was very useful as a reference book while at the University of Florida.
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Title: The Medieval Fortress: Castles, Forts and Walled Cities of the Middle Ages by Joseph Kaufmann, H. W. Kaufmann, Robert M. Jurga ISBN: 1580970621 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: The Medieval Castle: Life in a Fortress in Peace and War (Classic History) by Philip Warner ISBN: 0141390700 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Castle by David Macaulay ISBN: 0395329205 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books Pub. Date: 25 October, 1982 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Life in a Medieval Castle by Joseph Gies, Frances Gies ISBN: 006090674X Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 June, 1979 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The History of Castles: Fortifications Around the World by Christopher Gravett ISBN: 1585744352 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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