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Under Siege
Robert Nichols
其他書名
History's Epic City Blockades
出版Murdoch Books Pty Limited, 2010-01-18
主題History / GeneralHistory / World
ISBN17419663379781741966336
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=BKYprgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Under Siege examines the sieges and blockades that have threatened some of the world's great cities, from the time of the Romans through to the siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s. This book will enthrall readers of military history, as it examines the strategy and technology involved in siege warfare, as well as those readers who are fascinated by the political and social history of the urban centres of the ancient and modern worlds as they cope under the extreme stresses and privations imposed by siege. This is the stuff of great storytelling: barbarians at the gates of Rome; the siege of Paris in the Franco-Prussian War that drove the inhabitants to kill and eat their zoo animals; the siege of Leningrad in World War II where cultural life continued even as thousands of its inhabitants died.