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Maintained by : Chris Jones of Altofts, Wakefield, U.K. © September 1997

This page last updated : 19 September 1997


Recommended Reading List



The following books, many of which provided source material for this web site, are listed in alphabetical order by author. I have included a number of general works as well as those primarily concerned with military architecture. This is done to assist any persons new to the area of military history putting fortifications and siegecraft into some sort of context. I have highlighted those works which have a specific relevance to Vauban.

Author      Title                                  Publisher               

Anon        Vauban : sa vie - son oeuvre           Association Des Amis    
                                                   De La Maison Vauban     

Anon        Ville de Neuf-Brisach Cité fortifiée   Maison de Presse        
            de Vauban                              Vonner                  

Ayat, Mené  Chateau-Fort Liberia                   Editions du Castelet    
& Vassan    [Villefranche-de-Conflent]                                     

Bloch       La Citadelle de Besançon               ERTI Editeur 1995       

Bornecque   Les Fortifications des Alpes           Editions Le Dauphine    

Bornecque   Vauban et les Alpes                    Association Des Amis    
                                                   De La Maison Vauban     

Brisac      Le Musee des Plans-Reliefs Hotel       Pygmalion Gerard        
            National des Invalides                 Watelet                 

Clauzewitz  On war                                 Penguin                 

Cronin      Louis XIV                              World Books             

Cowe        Berwick upon Tweed : A Pictorial       J.D. Cowe               
            Guide                                                          

Duffy       Fire & Stone : The Science of          Greenhill Books         
            Fortress Warfare 1660-1860                                     

Duffy       Siege Warfare Volume I : The Fortress  Routledge & Kegan Paul  
            in the Early Modern World 1494-1660                            

Duffy       Siege Warfare Volume II : The          Routledge & Kegan Paul  
            Fortress in the age of Vauban and                              
            Frederick the Great                                            

Dupuy &     The Encyclopaedia of military history  Macdonald & Janes       
Dupuy       from 3500 BC to the present                                    

Faucherre   Bastions De La Mer: Le Guide Des       Editions patrimoines &  
            Fortifications De La                   medias                  
            Charente-Maritime                                              

Faucherre   Le Triomphe de la Méthode : Le Traité  Découvertes Gallimard   
& Prost     de L'Attacque des Places de Monsieur   Albums                  
            de Vauban Ingénieur du Roi                                     

Faucherre   Places Fortes, Bastion du pouvoir      R.E.M.P.A.R.T.          

Fletcher I  In Hell before daylight: The siege &   The Baton Press         
            storming of the fortress of Badajoz,                           
            1812                                                           

Graves      French military terminology 1670-1815  New Brunswick Museum    

Gresset     Vauban et la Franche-Comté             Association Des Amis    
                                                   De La Maison Vauban     

Gulvin      The Napoleonic defences of Rochester   Medway Military Research                     
            and Chatham                            Group "MMRG"                        

Gulvin      Chatham's concrete ring: the story of  MMRG                    
            the Medway land forts                                          

Gulvin      Fort Amherst : a brief history &       MMRG                    
            guide                                                          

Hachon      Vauban et le Roussillon                Association Des Amis    
                                                   De La Maison Vauban     

Herman      Ramparts : Fortifications from the     Avery Publishing Group  
            Renaissance to West Point                                      

Hoffman     Des Chateaux Cathares a Vauban         I.S.O. [Editions du     
                                                   Galbe]                  

Hughes Q    Military architecture                  Evelyn                  

Jomini      The Art of War                         Greenhill Books         

Keegan      The face of battle                     BCA                     

Keegan      The mask of command                    Penguin                 

Keegan      A history of warfare                   Hutchinson              

Lambalot &  Le Chateau de Joux - Architecture et   Syndicat D'Initiative   
Thiebaud    Histoire                               de Pontarlier 1994      

Lival       Chateaux forts & fortifications en     Ars mundi               
            Europe du Ve au XIXe siecle                                    

Macivor     The Fortifications of                  English Heritage        
            Berwick-Upon-Tweed                                             

Méné        Villefranche de Conflent : Cité au     Editions Dino           
            riche passé historique                                         

Moreau      Vauban et la côte Atlantique [entre    Association Des Amis    
            Loire et Gironde]                      De La Maison Vauban     

Napier      Battles & sieges in the Peninsula      John Murray             

Prost       Les Forteresses de L'Empire :          Editions du Moniteur    
            Fortifications, villes de guerre et                            
            arsenaux napoléoniens                                          

Rudorff     War to the death; the sieges of        Hamish Hamilton         
            Saragossa 1808-1809                                            

Salamagne   Vauban en Flandre et Artois [Places    Association Des Amis    
            de L'Intérieur]                        De La Maison Vauban     

Saunders    Fortress Britain: Artillery            Oxbow                   
            fortifications in the British Isles                            
            and Ireland                                                    

Schutz      Bitche and it's district               Casa Editrice Bonechi   
                                                   1992                    

Sretiotou   The Fortetza of Rethymno : The         Ministry of Culture     
            Defence of the town during Venetian    Archaeological          
            rule                                   Receipts Fund, Athens.  
                                                   1989                    

Truttman    Fortification, architecture et         Service culturel de la  
            urbanisme aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siecles  Ville de Thionville     

Truttman    Fortifications du Briançonnais,        Collections             
            Hautes-Alpes                           "Itinéraires du         
                                                   Patrimoine", no 12.     
                                                   1992                    

Truttman &  Fort Salses :  [caisse nationale des   Editions Ouest-France   
Bibollet    monuments historiques et des sites]                            

Various     L'ŒUVRE DE VAUBAN A BELFORT -          Ville de Belfort & La   
            Tricentenaire de la Porte de Brisach   Société Belfortaine     
            et des Fortifications 1687-1987        d'Émulation             

Viollet-le- Annals of a fortress                   Arms & Armour Press     
Duc                                                                        

Wagner      European Weapons & Warfare 1618-1648   Octopus                 

Note: I own copies of all but a couple of the above works. Therefore, if it is that you should require any further information about them, such as year of publication, ISBN No etc, I will happily supply them to you. All you need to do is e-mail me at chrisgjones@oocities.com. I shall endeavour to reply without undue delay.



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