Not One Step Back: History's Great Sieges

by Martin Windrow

The dramatic stories of history's gret Tyre, Jerusalem, Acre, Chateau-Gaillard, Constantinople, Tenochtitlan, Malta, Chittor Garh, Nagashino, Londonderry, Yorktown, Gibraltar, The Alamo, Vicksburg, and more. Includes maps and illustrations, complemented by fascinating asides on tactics, weaponry and life under siege. An enthralling overview of more than 2000 years of military history.

Genres: Nonfiction, History

201 pages

First published June 1, 2009

About the author

Martin C. Windrow is a British historian, editor and author of several hundred books, articles and monographs, particularly those on organizational or physical details of military history, and the history of the post-war French Foreign Legion. He has been published since the mid-Sixties.