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Sheila Sancha.
The Castle Story.
Published Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981 (previously issued in hardback, 1979).
ISBN 0140057471.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printer: Butler & Tanner, Frome & London.
Size: 166x236x12mm.
Page count: 224pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: covers rather battered and creased, mark from a small round sticker on the front, wear at the edges and corners; some mild creasing to the spine; corners curled; text appears to be free of marking.

This item £3.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

Weight without packaging: 425g.

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Contents: A glance at early fortifications; Digging in behind earth & timber defences; Quiet life in hall & chamber; Great square towers & how to take them; Siegecraft, chivalry & sheer brute force; Changing times; Rise of the gatehouse & decline of the keep; Gothic arches & painted chambers; Trouble in Wales & other matters; Heyday of English military architecture; Castles begin to lose their importance; Return of the great square keep; Ending the story.

Notes: no
Tables: no
Illustrations: throughout, monochrome
Maps & plans: approx. 92
Genealogies: no
Chronology: yes
Glossary: yes
Bibliography: no
Index: yes

See also | Castles | Children’s books |

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