Fortifications and Siegecraft

Jeremy Black graduated from Cambridge University with a Starred First and did graduate work at Oxford University before teaching at the University of Durham and then at the University of Exeter, where he is professor emeritus of history. He has held visiting chairs at the United States Military Academy at West Point, Texas Christian University, and Stillman College. He is a 2018 Templeton Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Black received the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize from the Society for Military History in 2008. His recent books include Naval Warfare: A Global History since 1860, Insurgency and Counterinsurgency: A Global History, Air Power: A Global History, and Combined Operations: A Global History of Amphibious and Airborne Warfare.

• AbbreviationsPrefaceChapter 1: OriginsChapter 2: The Medieval CastleChapter 3: The Sixteenth CenturyChapter 4: The Seventeenth CenturyChapter 5: The Eighteenth CenturyChapter 6: The Nineteenth CenturyChapter 7: The World WarsChapter 8: Since World War TwoChapter 9: ConclusionsNotesSelected Further ReadingCreditsAbout the Author

An admirable, incisive survey with several incisive insights. I do not know of any other serious academic volume which provides a longue durée approach to the history of fortification from prehistoric to the modern age. This book will be to worth its weight in gold for both beginners and masters of the field.