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Book Synopsis The Fortifications of Paris by : Jean-Denis G.G. Lepage
Download or read book The Fortifications of Paris written by Jean-Denis G.G. Lepage and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a strategically located seat of European power, Paris was a prized target for invaders. Consequently, it was one of the world’s most heavily fortified cities. Though many of the fortifications have been demolished, or hidden, they have left their imprint on the city, both physically and historically. To understand the history of Paris—and indeed, of France as a whole—one must understand the history of the fortifications. This heavily illustrated history begins with the period 300 B.C. to A.D. 987. Part II looks at the Medieval era (987–1512), a growth period for the city. Bastioned fortifications (1512–1874) are the focus of Part III, covering the era in which Paris modernized its defenses. Modern fortifications (1874–1944) are detailed in Part IV, ranging from the building of the second Parisian ring of polygonal forts to the end of World War II.
Book Synopsis Vauban and the French Military Under Louis XIV by : Jean-Denis G.G. Lepage
Download or read book Vauban and the French Military Under Louis XIV written by Jean-Denis G.G. Lepage and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man of inventiveness, versatility and reformist ideas, Marshal Sebastien Le Preste de Vauban built a formidable ring of fortresses to protect France's national frontiers. More than just a fortification designer, Vauban was also a gifted economist, author, and political strategist. This book tells the complete story of Vauban's exceptional career, placing him within the framework of Louis XIV's reign and revealing his lasting influences in France and other nations. With the aid of numerous detailed drawings, 17th century bastioned fortification, artillery, and seige warfare are described in detail. Vauban's fortifications that are still standing today are particularly highlighted.
Book Synopsis French Fortifications, 1715-1815 by : Jean-Denis G.G. Lepage
Download or read book French Fortifications, 1715-1815 written by Jean-Denis G.G. Lepage and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes and illustrates French fortifications from 1715 (the death of Louis XIV) to 1815 (the fall of Napoleon), focusing particularly on the Napoleonic era. After an historical background, it covers the heritage of the Ancien Regime with the important contributions of Vauban (the bastioned defense), Gribeauval's reforms in artillery, and Montalembert's innovations. Chapters explore the style of Napoleonic fortifications, siege warfare, artillery and engineering corps, as well as the Napoleonic achievements in France, Italy, German and the Netherlands, including projects that were planned but never completed.
Book Synopsis The Vauban Fortifications of France by : Paddy Griffith
Download or read book The Vauban Fortifications of France written by Paddy Griffith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-20 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vauban was the foremost military engineer of France, not only during his lifetime, but also throughout the 18th century when his legacy and methods remained in place almost unchanged. Indeed, his expertise and experience in the construction, defence, and attack of fortresses is unrivalled by any of his contemporaries, of any nationality. In all three of those fields he was a significant innovator and prolific exponent, having planned approximately 160 major defensive projects and directed over 50 sieges. This book provides not only a modern listing of his varied interventions and their fates, but also a wide-ranging discussion of just how and why they pushed forward the international boundaries of the arts of fortification.
Book Synopsis The Vauban Fortifications of France by : Paddy Griffith
Download or read book The Vauban Fortifications of France written by Paddy Griffith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-20 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vauban was the foremost military engineer of France, not only during his lifetime, but also throughout the 18th century when his legacy and methods remained in place almost unchanged. Indeed, his expertise and experience in the construction, defence, and attack of fortresses is unrivalled by any of his contemporaries, of any nationality. In all three of those fields he was a significant innovator and prolific exponent, having planned approximately 160 major defensive projects and directed over 50 sieges. This book provides not only a modern listing of his varied interventions and their fates, but also a wide-ranging discussion of just how and why they pushed forward the international boundaries of the arts of fortification.
Book Synopsis Fighting Terror after Napoleon by : Beatrice de Graaf
Download or read book Fighting Terror after Napoleon written by Beatrice de Graaf and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europe was forged out of the ashes of the Napoleonic wars by means of a collective fight against revolutionary terror. The Allied Council created a culture of in- and exclusion, of people that were persecuted and those who were protected, using secret police, black lists, border controls and fortifications, and financed by European capital holders.
Book Synopsis Cassell's history of the war between France and Germany, 1870-1871 by : Edmund Ollier
Download or read book Cassell's history of the war between France and Germany, 1870-1871 written by Edmund Ollier and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Modern European Military Fortifications, 1870-1950 by : J.E Kaufmann
Download or read book Modern European Military Fortifications, 1870-1950 written by J.E Kaufmann and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-10-30 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selected bibliography on modern European fortifications, from 1850 to 1950, provides a selection of the most important books and articles written on this topic. The work covers regions and countries and includes many sources on such popular topics such as the Maginot Line along with lesser known fortifications such as the Salpa Line and the Swiss National Redoubt. References for the fortifications that appear cover everything from the Iberian Peninsula to the Soviet Union and from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean countries. This work includes not only American and English, but also non-English publications. This source features books and articles done in the nineteenth and twentieth century ending in December 2000. Each contributor is a member of SITE O, an international fortifications research group. In addition to helpful annotations, each chapter includes summaries on the fortifications. Also features a multi-lingual glossary and reference maps.
Book Synopsis The Making of a Fiscal-Military State in Post-Revolutionary France by : Jerome Greenfield
Download or read book The Making of a Fiscal-Military State in Post-Revolutionary France written by Jerome Greenfield and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-09 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how the French state and its fiscal system were transformed in the aftermath of the French Revolution of 1789.
Book Synopsis Dickens's Dictionary of Paris, 1882 by : Charles Dickens
Download or read book Dickens's Dictionary of Paris, 1882 written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dicken's Dictionary of Paris, 1883 by : Charles Dickens
Download or read book Dicken's Dictionary of Paris, 1883 written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Fortifications of Verdun 1874–1917 by : Clayton Donnell
Download or read book The Fortifications of Verdun 1874–1917 written by Clayton Donnell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ring of fortifications protecting the city of Verdun on the Meuse River would become critical in the infamous battle of World War I. This book examines these fortifications, including the famous forts of Douaumont and Vaux that saw some of the fiercest fighting during the battle.
Book Synopsis The Forts and Fortifications of Europe 1815-1945: The Central States by : J.E. Kaufmann
Download or read book The Forts and Fortifications of Europe 1815-1945: The Central States written by J.E. Kaufmann and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-07-02 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Napoleonic Wars the borders of Central Europe were redrawn and relative peace endured across the region, but the volatile politics of the late nineteenth century generated an atmosphere of fear and distrust, and it gave rise to a new era of fortress building, and this is the subject of this highly illustrated new study. The authors describe how defensive lines and structures on a massive scale were constructed along national frontiers to deter aggression. The Germans, Austro-Hungarians and Czechs all embarked on ambitious building programmes. Artillery positions, barbed-wire networks, casemates, concrete bunkers, trench lines, observation posts all sprang up in a vain attempt to keep the peace and to delay the invader. The strategic thinking that gave rise to these defensive schemes is described in detail in this study, as is the planning, design and construction of the lines themselves. Their operational history in wartime, in particular during the Second World War, is a key element of the account.
Book Synopsis Renaissance France at War by : David Potter
Download or read book Renaissance France at War written by David Potter and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2008 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rulers of Renaissance France regarded war as hugely important. This book shows why, looking at all aspects of warfare from strategy to its reception, depiction and promotion.
Book Synopsis Arms, Armies and Fortifications in the Hundred Years War by : Anne Curry
Download or read book Arms, Armies and Fortifications in the Hundred Years War written by Anne Curry and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1999 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `Careful, original and wide-ranging study of many different aspects of late medieval military history.' HISTORY The Hundred Years War embraced warfare in all aspects, from the grand set pieces of Crecy and Agincourt to the pillaged lands of the dispossessed population. What makes this book different from previous studies emphasising the great battles is its use of less familiar evidence, such as administrative records and landscape archaeology, to gain a truer picture of the realities of medieval warfare. From a general review of battle tactics, the book turns to examine (at points enlisting computer analysis) a number of issues: the composition of the English army, the management of affairs in Aquitaine, the response in England at large to the war and the consequent propaganda and hardship, and the impact of warfare on local communities. Close study of surviving artefacts - weapons, fortifications - also allows realistic assessments of military and naval experiences. Contributors: ANDREW AYTON, MATTHEW BENNETT, ANNE CURRY, IAN FRIEL, ROBERT HARDY, MICHAEL HUGHES, MICHAEL JONES, BRIAN KEMP, JOHN KENYON, MARK ORMROD, ROBERT SMITH, MALCOLM VALE.
Book Synopsis The Maginot Line by : J. E. Kaufmann
Download or read book The Maginot Line written by J. E. Kaufmann and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Maginot Line, the complex system of strongpoints constructed between the world wars by the French to protect against attack from Germany, is one of the most famous, extensive and controversial defensive schemes in all military history. It stretched from Belgium to Switzerland, and from Switzerland to the Mediterranean, and it represented the most advanced and ambitious system of static defenses of its time. Much of this historic line -- with its fortresses, artillery positions, barbed-wire networks, casemates, concrete bunkers -- has survived and can be visited today ... The strategic thinking that gave rise to this enormous feat of military engineering is described, as is the planning, design, and construction of the line -- and its operational history. Each of the key sites is described in detail, and visitor information and plans are provided"--Jacket.
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