Battle Castles: 500 Years of Knights and Siege Warfare

Illustrated TV tie-in to a new Dan Snow 6-part TV series on the history of castles. Each chapter focuses on one particular castle, each representing the chief style of castle and each having been tested in battle.From the mouth of Lough Foyle in the north of Ireland, to the Alborz Mountains of Iran, castles and their ruins still dominate the landscape and our imaginations, and are a constant reminder to us today of a time when violence, or the threat of it, was the norm.Dan Snow explores in turn the world’s greatest surviving castles: Dover Castle, ‘the Key to England’ and King John’s first line of defence against the French; Château Gaillard, Richard I’s fortress in Norm…