Besieged : Seven Cities Under Siege

ISBN-13: 9781412805865 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 348 str.

J. Bowyer Bell

Opis

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 fortifi ed places of their enemies.

Spis treści

The Long Prologue; 1: Madrid: 1936–1939 The Impact of a Siege; 2: London: 1940–1941 Siege by Air; 3: Singapore: 1941–1942 The Illusion of a Fortress; 4: Stalingrad: 1942–1943 The Strategy of a Siege; 5: Warsaw: 1939, 1943, 1944 A Contrast in Sieges; 6: Jerusalem: 1947–1949 A Clash of Destinies; 7: Berlin: 1945–1949 Siege by Diplomacy; 8: A Summary of Sieges

O autorze

J. Bowyer Bell