ANNALS OF A FORTRESS

Viollet-Le-Duc, E. (Bucknall, Benjamin. translated. ) (Pepper, Simon & Hughes, Quentin. Introduction. )

ISBN 10: 0853685673 / ISBN 13: 9780853685678

Verlag: Arms & Armour Press, 1983

Beschreibung

Hardback; foxing to edge of pages, otherwise good in torn and part-missing dustjacket. ; Description of an imaginary place, tracing the fortifications and developments in siege warfare through the ages. The author was an architect and military engineer, active in the defence of Paris against the Prussians in 1870. Reprint of the 1874 edition, with new Introduction. Illustrated. ; 390 pages.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 80772

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: ANNALS OF A FORTRESS
• Verlag: Arms & Armour Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1983
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0853685673
• ISBN-13: 9780853685678
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Fair
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair

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Inhaltsangabe

. 1983, bright clean copy, with dustjacket, no markings, Professional booksellers since 1981

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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