Although many books have been published about the Western Front, few of them look beyond the Great War to consider trench warfare in a wider historical context.
On May 25, 1863, after driving the Confederate army into defensive lines surrounding Vicksburg, Mississippi, Union major general Ulysses S. Grant and his Army o
The World of the Siege examines the conduct of early modern sieges (15th-18th centuries) in relation to the creation and interpretation of siege narratives. The
There are a multiplicity of conflicts here, the better known of which include the Crimean War The American Civil War, The Franco Prussian War, the South African