Besieged: An Encyclopedia of Great Sieges from Ancient Times to the Present by Paul K. Davis
ABC-CLIO | November 28, 2001 | English | ISBN: 0849345146 | 376 pages | CHM | 6 MB
ABC-CLIO | November 28, 2001 | English | ISBN: 0849345146 | 376 pages | CHM | 6 MB
From Joshua's assault on Jericho in the 15th century B.C. to the Russian attack on the Chechen capital of Grozny at the end of the 20th century, siege warfare has been a recurring theme in the human story. Again and again, engineers have built supposedly impregnable fortifications, only to see them overrun by an ingenious enemy.