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Forts - An Illustrated History of Building for Defence

By: Osprey

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: General Military - World War II

Last Stocked on 12/26/2020

Product Info

Title
Forts - An Illustrated History of Building for Defence
Publisher
Category
Author
Jeremy Black
Publish Year
2018
Pages
224
Dimensions
11.25x11.25x1"
NKG Part #
2147734042
MFG. Part #
OSPGM325
Type
Hardcover
Series
GM325

Description

Ever since humans began to live together in settlements they have felt the need to organize some kind of defense against potentially hostile neighbors. Many of the earliest city states were built as walled towns, and during the medieval era, stone castles were built both as symbols of the defenders' strength and as protection against potential attack. The advent of cannon prompted fortifications to become lower, denser and more complex, and the forts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries could appear like snowflakes in their complexity and beautiful geometry. Without forts, the history of America could have taken a very different course, pirates could have sailed the seas unchecked, and Britain itself could have been successfully invaded.

This book explains the history of human fortifications, and is beautifully illustrated using photographs, plans, drawings and maps to explain why they were built, their various functions and their immense historical legacy in laying the foundations of empire.