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Castle: The Siege Chronicles
Travel back in time to the year 1203, to the famous Castle of Chateau-Gaillard, built by King Richard the Lionheart. But King Richard is dead and John, England's new monarch, has offended the King of France. Now it's war! Will the castle hold? How will peasants survive? Learn all about medieval warfare in this tale of a real siege, based on the diary of Baron Roger de Lacy. Foldout flaps provide a detailed look inside the castle and its grounds, while tiny bound-in books show pages from the diary.
40 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2007
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December 30, 2025
I'm still figuring out if this is a children's book or not but either way it's an amazing book with a lot of illustrations of Château-Gaillard and its siege!!
The siege is very well explained, has a lot of details about it and even explains various fun facts about how sieges worked.
The book is very interactive, having unfoldable pages and little books (the Diary of Roger de Lancy) telling how the history of Gaillard happens.
Another book that helped me a lot in my video about the history of this French/English castle
The siege is very well explained, has a lot of details about it and even explains various fun facts about how sieges worked.
The book is very interactive, having unfoldable pages and little books (the Diary of Roger de Lancy) telling how the history of Gaillard happens.
Another book that helped me a lot in my video about the history of this French/English castle
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