Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985. — 336 p.
One Louis XIV and the Apogee of the Old Fortress Warfare 1660-1715
Two The Masters: Coehoorn and Vauban
Three The Resolution of the Conflict: the Last Struggles of Habsburg and Bourbon
Four The Age of Frederick the Great 1740-86
Five A Time of Doubt: the Standing of Permanent Fortification in the Eighteenth Century
Six The Subjugation of Ireland and Scotland
Seven The Battle for Sweden's Trans- Baltic Bridgeheads
Eight The Last Crusade - the Repulse of Ottoman Turkey
Nine The Collision of the Colonial Empires
Ten Conclusions
General Index
Subject Index