Title: Strongholds of the realm :
Authors: Kightly, Charles.; Chèze-Brown, Peter.
Date: 1979
Publisher: Thames and Hudson,
Physical description: 208 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 26 cm
Language: English
LC classification: U
Contents: 'For the warres in owld times' : British fortresses from the earliest times until 55 BC -- The Roman conquest of Britain, 55 BC-AD 83 -- The Wall and the Saxon shore -- The heroic age, c. 410-800 -- 'The fury of the Northmen', 800-1066 -- 'All the land filled with castles' : the Normans, 1066-1154 -- 'The bones of the kingdom' : the Angevin kings of England, 1154-1272 -- The conquest of Wales, 1066-1415 -- Castles to 'lord it over the land' : Scotland and the Borders, 1066-1400 -- 'Made in help of the country' : English and coastal defences and the advent of artillery, 1335-1600 -- 'Builded like a castle' : castles and fortified manors in England, c.1300-1520 -- 'A house for thieves to knock at' : Scotland and the Borders, c.1400-1638 -- 'Dangerous and unprofitable to this State' : the Civil Wars, 1642-1660 -- 'They cannot come by sea' : the fortress of Britain from 1660 to the Nuclear Age.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Fortification--Great Britain--History.; Great Britain--History, Military.; Military architecture--Great Britain.