Sieges
Subtitle: A Comparative Study
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: August 30, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780275940348
Subjects: War & defence operations; Military Tactics And Strategy; History; History - Military / War; Military; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Iraq; Israel; Malta; Singapore; Military - Strategy; History / Military / Strategy; Siege warfare
First sentence: Siege: catapults hurl stones into the medieval castle as battering rams hammer the gates; great siege towers bridge the parapets; knights and men-at-arms struggle up ladders placed against the castle walls as defenders rain rocks, arrows, and boiling water on them.