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This is the indispensable guide to the castles of England, Scotland and Wales. There are over two hundred entries covering each castle's history which take the reader on a historical tour of the past. Many other castles are described in the text. The introduction traces the development of the castle through times of peace and war, and contains an analysis of the aspects of defense and attack, and the weapons used. Numerous line drawings and photographs are interspersed throughout, and there is even a section on the better known haunted castles and the ghosts that still reside there. Whether castles are still inhabited or in decay, they continue to exert a powerful fascination with their legends of romance and treachery, of the great and infamous.
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Philip Warner (1914-2000) enlisted in the Royal Corps of Signals after graduating from St Catharine's, Cambridge in 1939. He fought in Malaya and spent 1,100 days 'as a guest of the Emperor' in Changi and on the Railway of Death, an experience he never discussed. He was a legendary figure to generations of cadets during his thirty years as a Senior Lecturer at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. Yet he will arguably be best remembered for his contribution of more than 2,000 obituaries of prominent army figures to The Daily Telegraph. In addition he wrote fifty-four books on all aspects of military history, ranging from castles and battlefields in Britain, to biographies of prominent military figures (such as Kitchener: The Man Behind the Legend; Field Marshall Earl Haig; Horrocks: The General who Led from the Front and Auchinleck: The Lonely Soldier) to major histories of the S.A.S., the Special Boat Services and the Royal Corps of Signals."
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- PublisherClass Warfare
- Publication date1981
- ISBN 10 1859594018
- ISBN 13 9781859594018
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages184
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