Dan Snow

Battle Castles (eBook, ePUB)

500 Years of Knights and Siege Warfare

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Illustrated TV tie-in to a new Dan Snow 6-part TV series on the history of castles. Each chapter focuses on one particular castle, each representing the chief style of castle and each having been tested in battle.

From the mouth of Lough Foyle in the north of Ireland, to the Alborz Mountains of Iran, castles and their ruins still dominate the landscape and our imaginations, and are a constant reminder to us today of a time when violence, or the threat of it, was the norm.

Dan Snow explores in turn the world's greatest surviving castles: Dover Castle, 'the Key to England' and King John's first line of defence against the French; Château Gaillard, Richard I's fortress in Normandy (the only chink in whose armaments was through the latrines); Castillo de Gibalfaro, the last vanguard of Moorish rule in Southern Spain; Malbork Castle, headquarters of the evangelical and entrepreneurial Teutonic Knights in Poland; Edward I's network of castles in Wales, with its heart at Conwy, built to suppress the rebellious Welsh princes; and Krak des Chevaliers in Syria - an astounding feat of engineering by the Crusaders, which only fell to Sultan Baibars by an underhand subterfuge.

Each castle's story is dramatically recounted - the building techniques, day-to-day life and, crucially, how well it stood up to the onslaught of siege warfare and battle. Spanning across Europe and the Middle East, and using the latest CGI reconstructions, Dan Snow gets to the very heart of the bloodshed and battles of the greatest fortresses of the Middle Ages.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780007457489
• Artikelnr.: 37988169

Autorenporträt

Dan Snow is an historian who has researched, written and presented several documentaries on British and world history for the BBC including Twentieth Century Battlefields, the BAFTA award-winning Battlefield Britain, which he co-presented with his father Peter Snow, and his BBC2 series on the history of the Royal Navy. His writing has appeared in The Times, the Sunday Times, the Guardian, the Daily Express and BBC History Magazine. He is the author of Death or Victory - a history of Wolfe's siege of Quebec. Educated at the University of Oxford, he has joint British and Canadian citizenship. He lives in London.