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Greenhill Books London 1996 edition. Hard cover dust wrapper 254pp b&w plates and illustrations. Near fine. Duffy's history of fortifications and siegecraft is perhaps the best general work available on the subject. covers the classic age of military engineering, which was heralded by the work of Vauban, chielf engineer to Louis XIV. Examines the purpose of fortresses across Europe and draws on first hand evidence of besiegers and besieged. Analyses the strategic and structural considerations that dictated fortress locations and describes how they were planned, designed and built. Then explains the progress of a siege: from plans and preparations, the investment of the fortress, the ways in which a fortress could be reduced short of a formal siege and the siege itself at every stage.