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Product Description: The Islamic world developed its own highly sophisticated, effective and varied style of fortification. It drew upon pre-existing Romano-Byzantine, Iranian, Central Asian and Indian traditions of military architecture, plus influences from China, to produce something new and distinctive...read more
By Adam Hook (illustrator) and David Nicolle
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9781846031151 | Osprey Pub Co, June 17, 2008, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The Islamic world developed its own highly sophisticated, effective and varied style of fortification.

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Product Description: This is a new edition (the first since 1936) of the classic text on Crusader castles and their relation to Western military architecture written by T.E. Lawrence in 1910. This volume reproduces Lawrence's text, drawings, and photographs; provides a new introduction, critical notes, and index; and reassesses in light of recent scholarship Lawrence's controversial claim that Crusader castles of the 12th century owed more to castles in the West than to anything the Franks found in the East, and that western military architecture absorbed little or nothing from the Orient before the 12th century...read more
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9780198229643 | Rev sub edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, January 12, 1989), cover price $140.00 | About this edition: This is a new edition (the first since 1936) of the classic text on Crusader castles and their relation to Western military architecture written by T.

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9780781800389 | Hippocrene Books, August 1, 1992, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This is a new edition (the first since 1936) of the classic text on Crusader castles and their relation to Western military architecture written by T.
9780870522901 | Reissue edition (Hippocrene Books, June 1, 1986), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Examines the designs of the castles built by the Crusaders in the East and discusses medieval military architecture

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Product Description: Concise, scholarly survey traces castle development from ancient roots. Nearly 200 photographs and drawings illustrate moats, keeps, baileys, many other features. Caernarvon, Dover castles, Hadrian's Wall, Tower of London, dozens more...read more
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9780486248981 | Dover Pubns, December 1, 1985, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Concise, scholarly survey traces castle development from ancient roots.

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