Vauban, Builder of Fortreses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Vauban, Builder of Fortreses write by Daniel Halévy. This book was released on 1925. Vauban, Builder of Fortreses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Vauban and the French Military Under Louis XIV
Vauban and the French Military Under Louis XIV - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Vauban and the French Military Under Louis XIV write by Jean-Denis G.G. Lepage. This book was released on 2009-12-21. Vauban and the French Military Under Louis XIV available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A man of inventiveness, versatility and reformist ideas, Marshal Sebastien Le Preste de Vauban built a formidable ring of fortresses to protect France's national frontiers. More than just a fortification designer, Vauban was also a gifted economist, author, and political strategist. This book tells the complete story of Vauban's exceptional career, placing him within the framework of Louis XIV's reign and revealing his lasting influences in France and other nations. With the aid of numerous detailed drawings, 17th century bastioned fortification, artillery, and seige warfare are described in detail. Vauban's fortifications that are still standing today are particularly highlighted.
Marshal Vauban
Marshal Vauban - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Marshal Vauban write by James Falkner. This book was released on 2011-12-01. Marshal Vauban available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “[A] vivid and well written account of the life of the man who built some of the most magnificent military structures known to man.”—Clayton Donnell, “Fortress Archaeologist” Sebastien Le Prestre, Marshal Vauban, was one of the greatest military engineers of all time. His complex, highly sophisticated fortress designs, his advanced theories for the defense and attack of fortified places, and his prolific work as a writer and radical thinker on military and social affairs, mark him out as one of the most influential military minds of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Yet no recent study of this extraordinary man has been published in English. James Falkner, in this perceptive and lively new account of Vauban’s life and work, follows his career as a soldier from a dashing and brave young cavalry officer to his emergence as a masterful military engineer. And he shows that Vauban was much more than simply a superlative builder of fortresses, for as a leading military commander serving Louis XIV, he perfected a method for attacking fortifications in the most effective way, which became standard practice until the present day. Falkner’s new study will add significantly to the understanding of Vauban’s achievements and the impact his work has had on the history of warfare. “A very enjoyable read for those looking for a good, basic account of Vauban’s career and his role in the wars of Louis XIV and of fortification more generally. Its usefulness is enhanced by various maps and reproductions of portraits of key characters and of contemporary plans of fortresses.”—War in History
The Fortress in the Age of Vauban and Frederick the Great 1660-1789
The Fortress in the Age of Vauban and Frederick the Great 1660-1789 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Fortress in the Age of Vauban and Frederick the Great 1660-1789 write by Christopher Duffy. This book was released on 2015-10-05. The Fortress in the Age of Vauban and Frederick the Great 1660-1789 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have been acclaimed as the classic period of artillery fortification. This was an era when fortresses and fortress systems shaped the calculations of strategists and statesmen, and often dictated the course of campaigns. The age was one of almost constant conflict and this book, originally published in 1985, explores the influence of the fortress in the dynastic wars of Bourbon, Habsburg and Hohenzollern, the contest for influence in the Baltic, the last crusades of the West against the Turks, and in the peculiar conditions of colonial campaigning and the War of the American Independence.
Vauban, Builder of Fortresses
Vauban, Builder of Fortresses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Vauban, Builder of Fortresses write by Daniel Halévy. This book was released on 1925. Vauban, Builder of Fortresses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
