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Fortress Britain : artillery fortification in the British Isles and Ireland.
Main entry:

Saunders, Andrew, 1931-

Title & Author:

Fortress Britain : artillery fortification in the British Isles and Ireland.

Publication:

Liphook : Beaufort, 1989.

Description:

256 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-245) and index.
Early artillery fortification and coastal defence -- Henry VIII and the emergence of a national defence policy -- The establishment of the Italian Bastion System in the sixteenth century -- Civil war -- Sir Bernard de Gomme : England's Vauban -- Scottish and Irish insurgency -- Eighteenth century coastal defense -- The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars -- The changing shape of fortification -- The forts of the 1859 Royal Commission -- The decline of permanent fortification and the German threat -- Coastal defences in two world wars.
ISBN:

1855120003
9781855120006

Subject:

Fortification Great Britain.
Artillery Great Britain.
Artillerie Grande-Bretagne.
Artillery.
Fortification.
Artillerie
Befestigung
Bildband
Geschichte
Vestingwerken.
Fortification Great Britain History.
Great Britain.
Großbritannien
Irland
Fortified buildings

Holdings:

Location: Library main 188193
Call No.: ID UG401; ID:90-B2118
Status: Available

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