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Charles Kightly; photographs by Peter Chèze-Brown.
Strongholds of the Realm: Defences in Britain from prehistory to the twentieth century.
Published London: Thames and Hudson, 1979.
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: BAS, Over Wallop.
Size: 196x260x22mm.
Page count: 208pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: the dustjacket on this copy is missing; boards and spine slightly grubby, but not too heavily worn; pages a bit yellowed with age; text appears to be free of marking.

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Weight without packaging: 932g.

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Contents: Earliest times until 55 BC; Roman conquest, 55 BC-AD 83; The Wall & the Saxon Shore; Heroic Age, c.410-800; 'Fury of the Northmen', 800-1066; Normans, 1066-1154; Angevin Kings of England, 1154-1272; Conquest of Wales, 1066-1415; Scotland & the Borders, 1066-1400; Coastal defences & advent of artillery, 1335-1600; Castles & fortified manors in England, c.1300-1520; Scotland & the Borders, c.1400-1638; Civil wars, 1642-1660; Fortresses of Britain from 1660 to the nuclear age.

Illustrations: 158 monochrome and 20 in colour
Maps & plans: 15

Notes: no
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 1½pp
Index: yes

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