Seller: Paul Meekins Military & History Books, Stratford upon Avon, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Hardback; foxing to edge of pages, otherwise good in torn and part-missing dustjacket. ; Description of an imaginary place, tracing the fortifications and developments in siege warfare through the ages. The author was an architect and military engineer, active in the defence of Paris against the Prussians in 1870. Reprint of the 1874 edition, with new Introduction. Illustrated. ; 390 pages.