Siege! Can You Capture a Castle? by Julia Bruce is a great addition to our history lessons. We have been studying the middle ages, and learning a lot about castles this year. This book does a great job explaining all the different things that would have happened during a siege, the planning before, the actual attack, and how people would have tried to survive the siege. The illustrations by Peter Dennis are detailed and add to the text perfectly.
Here is a quote from the "Before the Sige" chapter:
Remember, you don't just need brute force to succeed. You'll also need to use your wits to plan the attack and get information. Your tactics should include sending spies into the castle, stopping the castle's food supplies, and blocking enemy troops from coming to the rescue. The more information you can gather about the land, its lord, and its people, the better.
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This looks like a great book! I will try to remember this one when I'm doing the Middle Ages with my son in a couple of years.
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ReplyDeleteI really like the looks of Siege!--it looks like one of the better Usborne or Kingfisher books (for us, anyway--some of the Usborne books drive us batty).