Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: h w kaufmann

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  • FORTRESS EUROPE
    J.E. KAUFMANN / H.W. KAUFMANN
    A few of the fortifications and fortified lines of the world wars are well known and have often been written about, illustrated and studied. But they tend to distract attention from the wide range of fixed defenses constructed across Europe on an enormous scale after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, during a period of insecurity and aggression. That is why this new, highly i...

    $329.00

  • VERDUN 1916
    H. W. KAUFMANN / J. E. KAUFMANN
    Wrapped in myth and distortion, the Battle of Verdun is one of the most enigmatic battles of the Great War, and the controversy continues a century later. Before the battle the Germans believed they had selected one of the strongest points in the French defences in the hope that, if they smashed through it, the French would collapse. But Verdun was actually a hollow shell since...

    $279.00

  • FORTRESS EUROPE
    J E KAUFMANN / H W KAUFMANN
    A few of the fortifications and fortified lines of the world wars are well known and have often been written about, illustrated and studied. But they tend to distract attention from the wide range of fixed defenses constructed across Europe on an enormous scale after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, during a period of insecurity and aggression. That is why this new, highly i...

    $473.24

  • CASTLE TO FORTRESS
    J. E. KAUFMANN / H. W. KAUFMANN
    The authors of Castrum to Castle trace the “evolution of defensive architecture at the turn of the late Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance.” —Old Barbed Wire Blog   Across western Europe, the long tradition of castle-building took on its most sophisticated form in the later Medieval period and then, in response to the development of gunpowder weapons, it underwent...

    $229.00

  • CASTRUM TO CASTLE
    J. E. KAUFMANN / H. W. KAUFMANN
    A richly illustrated history of military fortifications in ancient and medieval times.   For over a thousand years, from the time of the Roman Empire to the classic period of castle-building in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, fortified sites played a key role in European warfare. This highly illustrated history gives a fascinating insight into their design and development...

    $229.00

  • THE FORTS & FORTIFICATIONS OF EUROPE 1815-1945: THE CENTRAL STATES
    J. E. KAUFMANN / H. W. KAUFMANN
    "Extremely well written and presented and gives you every scrap of information you'll ever need on cupolas, embrasures and cloches."—War History Online   After the Napoleonic Wars, the borders of Central Europe were redrawn and relative peace endured across the region, but the volatile politics of the late nineteenth century generated an atmosphere of fear and distrust, and it ...

    $279.00

  • THE ATLANTIC WALL
    J. E. KAUFMANN / H. W. KAUFMANN / A. JANKOVIC-POTOCNIK / VLADIMIR TONIC
    This WWII history and visitor's guide explores the extensive network of Nazi fortifications built to defend Fortress Europe. Hitler's Atlantic Wall, the complex system of coastal fortifications that stretched from Norway to the Spanish border during the Second World War, was built to defend occupied Europe from Allied invasion. Many of its principal structures survive and can b...

    $119.00

  • THE MAGINOT LINE
    J. E. KAUFMANN / H. W. KAUFMANN / ALEKSANDER POTOCNIK / PATRICE LANGE
    The Maginot Line, the complex system of strongpoints constructed between the world wars by the French to protect against attack from Germany, is one of the most famous, extensive and controversial defensive schemes in all military history. It stretched from Belgium to Switzerland, and from Switzerland to the Mediterranean, and it represented the most advanced and ambitious syst...

    $212.00

  • THE FORTS & FORTIFICATIONS OF EUROPE 1815- 1945: THE NEUTRAL STATES
    J. E. KAUFMANN / H. W. KAUFMANN
    After the Napoleonic Wars the borders of Europe were redrawn and relative peace endured across the region, but the volatile politics of the late nineteenth century generated an atmosphere of fear and distrust, and it gave rise to a new era of fortress building. In the neutral states situated between France and Germany - The Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland - the need for ex...

    $299.00