Marshal Vauban and the Defence of Louis XIV's France

by James Falkner

Book Overview

Sebastien Le Prestre, Marshal Vauban, was one of the greatest military engineers of all time. His complex, highly sophisticated fortress designs, his advanced theories for the defense and attack of fortified places, and his prolific work as a writer and radical thinker on military and social affairs, mark him out as one of the most influential military minds of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Yet no recent study of this extraordinary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526781859
• ISBN13: 9781526781857
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"