France’s great architect of the Gothic revival invents a single strategic site on a tributary of the Saône and follows it through the ages: a Celtic refuge, a Roman camp, a medieval castle undermined and stormed, a Renaissance bastion, and a modern fortress. Each chapter tells a siege as a story, showing how attack and defence changed one another.
An ingenious history of fortification told as narrative, for readers of military history and architecture alike. Download the free EPUB.