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Annals of a Fortress

E. Viollet-le-Duc

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .ld, who had advanced with several warriors on horseback along the verge of the wood, still heard nothing. He sent two of his warriors to ascertain where the two detachments were; they had great difficulty in making their way through the wood, while the enemy's fires, which they[Pg 48] saw in the distance through the trees, only added to their difficulties, by preventing them from seeing the ground they were riding over. The right front of the enemy towards the river formed a lengthened curve, and the left detachment kept advancing parallel with the front without finding a point of attack.

Midnight had passed when this detachment found itself at last before an opening left in the barricade, but this opening formed an interior angle, which rendered the attack very hazardous. The detachment waited until all was silent in the camp. The fires, fed only at irregular intervals, cast here and there a fluctuating light, and fewer shadows were passing before the braziers.. . . Read More

Community Reviews

5.00
- Dave - Sep 02, 2015

What a fantastic find this book was! Viollet-le-Duc picks a particularly defensible (fictional) piece of land and writes a series of short stories on siege actions starting in pre-Celtic Gaul and finishing at the tail end of Napoleon’s campaigns. He has a knack for fiction, consistently constructing

2.00
- Catherine - Jul 17, 2022

It's not you it's me. I'm really not sure how to rank this book since neutral isn't an option. It's the kind of book which is historically relevant in and of itself, and not just the information it contains. I have tried to read military history before with the same result; rereading the same parag

4.00
- Walt - Jan 05, 2022

This a surprising gem of a book. Written by a fortification engineer in the late 19th Century, I was expecting a dry, academic treatise on fortifications. Instead, I was surprised by a blend of dry academic scribbling, common language interpretations / analysis, and a novelization of 9 sieges spread

5.00
- Sean - Jul 14, 2008

An interesting story indeed.

An account of the development and story behind a fortress and its town over the course of history. It was written well and easy to go through, while apparently being an old classic, which I only realized much later.

For those who are interesting in fortifications and anc

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