Stronghold: A History of Military ArchitectureBatsford, 1984 - 192 pages |
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Page 109
... accommodation of greater or lesser comfort for officers and soldiers , but these buildings were not royal or baronial residences , in which the high - born castellan shared the rigours of siege with his own personal body- guard ...
... accommodation of greater or lesser comfort for officers and soldiers , but these buildings were not royal or baronial residences , in which the high - born castellan shared the rigours of siege with his own personal body- guard ...
Page 158
... accommodation known as ' con- centration camps ' - then a perfectly respectable term , but which first gained opprobrium during that period . Meanwhile the Boer commandos had been pinned up against the barbed wire , blockhouses and ...
... accommodation known as ' con- centration camps ' - then a perfectly respectable term , but which first gained opprobrium during that period . Meanwhile the Boer commandos had been pinned up against the barbed wire , blockhouses and ...
Page 175
... accommodation after the enormous construction programmes of the war that there was little need for new building . The exception was in occupied and liberated countries , where existing barracks had been destroyed . Such new construction ...
... accommodation after the enormous construction programmes of the war that there was little need for new building . The exception was in occupied and liberated countries , where existing barracks had been destroyed . Such new construction ...
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