Synopses & Reviews
Castles and Forts is rich with factual and visual details about life inside the world's many different types of fortifications.
Review
These series entries have more text and a cleaner design to provide more in-depth coverage . . . stunning, captioned photographs and illustrations that emphasize the many intriguing factual details in the text. Chapters end with a summary, a list of Web and print resources, brief details about careers related to the topic, and organizations to contact . . . colorful and accessible.
Synopsis
Castles and Forts is rich with factual and visual details about life inside the world's many different types of fortifications.
About the Author
Simon Adams worked as an editor of children's reference and other nonfiction books before becoming a full-time writer. He has written and contributed to more than fifty books on subjects as varied as the sinking of the Titanic, the two world wars, and the history of jazz. He is the author of Kingfisher Knowledge: Castles & Forts, Kingfisher Knowledge: Life in Ancient Rome, The Kingfisher Atlas of the Ancient World and The Kingfisher Atlas of the Medieval World. Clifford Rogers is a professor of history at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York.