Description and condition:

Blue boards hardback, dustcover, 8vo, 214 pp., index, glossary, select bibliography, b/w illustrations.

Very good, small mark to FFEP, else with nice bright clean pages. In clipped dustcover with tears and chipping, now protected.

Contents:

The development of siege warfare techniques; the castle as an instrument of government: Henry I; 'the nineteen long winters when god and his saints slept;: Stephen and Matilda; the plantagenet warriors: Henry II and Richard I; the small gains and large losses of John; the long reign of Henry III; the great era of castle-building: Edward I; favourites and foreign wars: Edward II and Edward III; war in France: Henry V; the wars of the roses: Henry VI, Edward IV, Edward V, and Richard III; conclusion