How To Attack A Castle - And How To Defend It

This book answers the questions everyone really wants to ask when they visit Britain's magnificent castles.

Bastions of heritage, some are majestically complete and full of menace; others are silent ruins shorn of their defences following the English Civil War.

Just what did the grim and grisly business of siege warfare actually involve? How did the siege machines work? Did attackers really fling the corpses of captured enemies back over the walls as a sign of what would befall those insi...