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By R. Allen Brown

An illustrated, concise account of the advance and decline of chateau structure, this discusses the good sort common, power and site of castles. interpreting castles either as fortresses in occasions of battle and as flats, the writer concentrates on 8 castles which characterize the apogee of medieval fortification and describes the well-known sieges of Rochester, Kenilworth and Bedford. R.Allen Brown has written numerous normal texts on castles and a couple of guidebooks on person castles.

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