Civilians under siege from Sarajevo to Troy. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Alex Dowdall, John Horne.
• Editors: Dowdall, Alex; Horne, John, 1949-
• Contents: 1. Civilians under Siege from Sarajevo to Troy: Introduction; Alex Dowdall and John Horne.- 2. Transmission and Transformation: Memories of the Siege of Sarajevo; Ivana Maček.- 3. 'This did not happen': Survivors of the Siege of Leningrad (1941–1944) and the 'Truth about the Blockade'; Alexandra Wachter.- 4. 'Like Troy, though about as much larger…as the Encyclopaedia Britannica is larger than the Iliad': Civilians and Siege Warfare during the First World War; Alex Dowdall.- 5. Siege Warfare in Comparative Early-Modern Contexts: Norms, Nuances, Myth and Massacre during the Revolutionary Wars; Fergus Robson.- 6. Between Positional Warfare and Small War: Soldiers and Civilians during the 'Desolation of the Palatinate' (1688-89); Emilie Dosquet.- 7. Before the Storm: Civilians under Siege during the Thirty Years' War (1618-1630); Jane Finucane.- 8. A Race against Time – A Fight to the Death: Combatants and Civilians in the Siege and Capture of Jerusalem, 1099; Alan V. Murray.- 9. As They Were Ripped from the Altars: Civilians, Sacrilege and Classical Greek Siege Warfare; Joshua R. Hall.- 10. Civilians under Siege in the Ancient Greek World; Philip de Souza.- Index.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 355.4409; Siege warfare -- History; Civilians in war
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137585325
• Related ISBNs: 9781137585318
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