Book description
In this fully illustrated ebook, TV's Dan Snow brings to life a
cavalcade of medieval fortifications and allows the reader to experience
the clashes up close. (Images best viewed on a tablet.)
Castles and their ruins still dominate the landscape and are a constant
reminder to us of a time when the threat of violence was very real.
Dan Snow explores the world's greatest castles including Dover Castle,
Castillo de Gibalfaro, the last vanguard of Moorish rule in Spain, and
Krak des Chevaliers in Syria - an astounding feat of engineering by the Crusaders.
Spanning the globe, and using the latest CGI reconstructions to explore
the building and life of each castle, Dan Snow gets to the heart of the
greatest fortresses of the Middle Ages. 'An enthralling epic of
engineering, blood and battle' Mail on Sunday
'History's coolest expert brings to life some of the bloodiest battles
ever fought' Sun
'Dan Snow does a fine job of bringing [the sieges] to life' Times
'It has been edited to look like Game of Thrones. Serious historical
discovery, however, is what Battle Castle is all about' Guardian
Praise for Dan Snow:
“Many of us wondered whether Dan Snow could make the transition from
fluent TV presenter to serious historian. This hugely impressive work
confirms his triumphant arrival on the scene. It is by far the best
account yet written of a campaign that helped shape North America, and
is a fitting tribute on the 250th anniversary of that “wonderful year”
1759' Richard Holmes
"Dan Snow is perhaps more familiar from television….this, his
first book, proves him to be a master military historian in the making.
Its grasp of detail is prodigious" Daily Express
"lively and thoughtful…fascinating stuff….one of the book's
strengths is its vivid portrayal of the physical backdrop against which
the campaign unfolded" Literary Review Dan Snow is an historian
who has researched, written and presented several documentaries on
British and world history for the BBC including Twentieth Century
Battlefields, the BAFTA award-winning Battlefield Britain, which he
co-presented with his father Peter Snow, and his BBC2 series on the
history of the Royal Navy. His writing has appeared in The Times, the
Sunday Times, the Guardian, the Daily Express and BBC History Magazine.
He is the author of Death or Victory - a history of Wolfe's siege of
Quebec. Educated at the University of Oxford, he has joint British and
Canadian citizenship. He lives in London.
