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ISSUE	AUTHOR		TITLE

FORT 1	Pepper	Simon	Italian Renaissance Fortifications
1976 Spring	Kenyon	John R.	Early Artillery Fortifications in England & Wales
	Hughes	Quentin	The last of the big guns at Gibraltar.

FORT 2	Griffiths	P.	Fortress Wargames
1976	Goodwin	John	Circular Masonry Redoubts.
	Kemp	Anthony	The Maginot Line today
	Pepper	Simon	Planning versus fortification; Sangallo's project for the defence of Rome.

FORT 3	Kenyon	John R.	Artillery and the Defences of Southampton Circa 1360-1660
1977 Spring	Hamilton-Baillie	J. R. E.	Fort Halstead & the London Defence Positions.
	Neumann	Hartwig	The Study of Fortifications in Germany.
	Malacowicz	Edmund	Fortifications in Poland.

FORT 4	Malpas	F. J.	Some lesser known Henrician Castles
1977 Autumn	Kenyon	John R.	Early Gunports
	Pfluger	Hellmut	The Defences of Ulm
	Hughes	Quentin	The Fortifications of Malta

FORT 5	Tod	Rosalind	Scottish Castles
1978 Spring	Bury	John	Francisco de Holanda - a source for the history of C16th. Fortification
	Griffith	P. G.	The Strategic Challenge to the French Engineers: 1815-1851
	Tomkinson	John	The Open Battery of Hubberston
	Gulvin	Keith & Quintin Hughes	The Twydall Profile
	Smith	Victor T. C.	Chatham Siege Operations in 1907
	Alexander	Martin S.	Pilgrimage to Verdun: 1916-1976

FORT 6	Barnes	David	Artillery fortifications in the south-east- a review
1978 60pp	Hogg	Ian V.	The rise and fall of the disappearing carriage
	Kenyon	John R.	St. Andrew's castle, Hampshire in 1623
	Bonavita	Roger Vella	The 100-ton gun at Rinella Battery in Malta.
	Hamilton-Baillie	J. R. E.	More notes on the siege exercises at Chatham 1907
	Hodgson	Norman	An introduction to defences of Dover

FORT 7	Hodgson	Norman	The meaning of the Renaissance Fortress
1979 80pp	Yeoh	P. K .	Fortress Singapore
	Turnbull	Douglas	Some problems about the origin of Criccieth Castle
	Hughes	Quentin	Russian views on the English Defences in 1864.

FORT 8	Renn	D. F.	The Enceinte Wall of Quarr Abbey
1980 106pp	Bury	John	Are Renaissance Fortifications Beautiful?
	Davenport	T.G. & C.W.Partridge	The Victorian fortification of Alderney.
	Kenyon	John R.	James Fergusson, a critic of early Victorian military architecture
	Pegden	B. K.	The Purchase of Bricks for Martello Towers in the year 1804.
	Hogg	Ian V.	Notes on the Identification of Coast Artillery Gun Emplacements.
	Hughes	Quentin	Letters from the Defence Committee in 1861

FORT 8	Inglis	Harry D.	The Channel Islands; Jersey, Guernsey, etc.
(Supplement)	Davenport	T.G. & C.W. Partridge	The Victorian Fortification of Alderney 2
1980 58pp	Jervois	W. F. D.	Short Description of Works proposed and in progress at Alderney Isle
	Hughes	Quentin	Cherbourg, a French Naval Base.

FORT 9	Forti	Carlo	The Fortifications of Genoa Leone
1981 108pp	Hansen	David	The Gun-lift Battery in the defences of the United States.
	Hamilton-Baillie	J. R. E.	The Coast Defences of Orkney in Two World Wars
	Powter	Andrew	Concrete in 19th. Century Fortifications constructed by the Royal Engineers.
	Portlock	J.E. & C.H. Nugent	The state of the art of fortification towards the end of the C19^th.

FORT 9	Andrews	E.A. & M.L. Pinsent	The coastal defences of Portland and Weymouth
(Supplement)	Jervois	W. F. D.	War Office letters about Portland
1981 76pp	Hughes	Quentin	The Duke of Wellington's warning of invasion.

FORT 10	Hughes	Quentin	Military Architecture and the Printed Book
1982 144pp	Bury	John	The early history of the Explosive Mine.
	Pepper	Simon	The Underground Siege.
	Scaglia	Gustina	Francesco di Giorgio's Chapters on Fortresses and on War Machines.
	Hughes	Quentin	The siege of Fort St Elmo in 1565.
	Pepper	Simon	Firepower in the Design of Renaissance Fortifications.
	Donnelly	John	A study of Coastal Forts built by Henry VIII.
	Smith	Victor T. C.	Excavations of the Site of Milton Blockhouse, Gravesend.
Fort Index: Contents of Vol 1-9

FORT 11	Trollope	Charles	The Defences of Harwich.
1983 114pp	Kenyon	John R.	Terminology and Early Artillery Fortification
	Kenyon	John R.	A Hitherto Unknown Early C17^th. Survey of Southern England
	Williams	G. H.	The Stokes Bay Moat near Portsmouth.
	Pinsent	Margaret	The Defences of the Bristol Channel in the last two centuries
	Hunt	Ian	Plymouth Sound? The Defence of a Naval Station

FORT 12	Petre	James	Historians and the Role of Castles in the Wars of the Roses
1984 124pp	Tomkinson	John	Valenca do Minho.
	Caldwell	David H.	A C16^th. group of Gun Towers in Scotland.
	Hughes	Quentin	A project for the defence of Paris
	Ruckley	N. A.	Inchkeith: The water supply of an island fortress
	Tomkinson	John	The Main Magazine for Fort Hubberston at Milford Haven.
	le Page	H. M.	The Fortified Place of Antwerp.
	Hogg	R.	The Tyne Turrets: coastal defence of First World War.
	Gander	T. J.	American 16 inch Coast Defence Guns in the Second World War.

FORT 13	Bury	John	Early Writing on Fortification and Siegecraft, 1502-1554.
1985 118pp,	Kent	Peter	Kings Lynn
Colour covers	Bull	Stephen	Mortars at Elizabeth Castle, Jersey in 1651.
	Cantwell	Anthony	The Needles Battery.
	Smith	Victor T. C.	Defending the Forth, 1880 - 1910.
	Kenyon	John R.	The FSG Library Catalogue

FORT 14	Lamberini	Daniela	The military architecture of Giovanni Battista Belluzzi.
1986 118pp	Hughes	Quentin	The defences of Corfu.
	Kent	Peter	The Militant Trinity (Palmerston fortification policy).
	Clark	Norman H.	C 20^th. Coastal Defence of the Firth of Forth.
	Clark	David & Alan Rudd	The Trow Rock Floating Platform.
	Bogart	Charles H.	The Puget Sound Defence Command.
	Garie	Franklin	The Movement and Preservation of two 10-inch RML Armstrong guns at Fort Glanville, S. Australia.
	Allcorn	William	The Maginot Line in northern France

FORT 15	Lamberini	Daniela	Practice and Theory in C 16^th. Fortification.
1987 168pp	Mardis	Alan	A battery in Bermuda.
	Hughes	Quentin	English Civil War fortifications.
	Howell-Everson	Douglas	Victorian Fortress Strategy in the UK.
	Evans	David	A Proposed Installation of a Tide Gauge in the Palmerston Sea Forts.
	Kitson	M.	Australia, the South Channel defences at Port Phillip. Factors and design, 1876-1909
	Allcorn	William	The Maginot Line in the Alps.
	Kenyon	John R.	The Library Catalogue - Supplement One

FORT 16	Engelbrecht	W. F. K.	A bastioned entrenchment in Holland.
1988 141pp	Perbellini	Gianni	The Venetian defences of Cyprus.
	Kenyon	John R.	The State of Fortifications in the West Country in 1623.
	Salamagne	Alain	Fortifications du XVIIe siecle dans le nord de la France.
	Evans	David	The Duke of Richmond, James Glenie, Maker and the Fortification Bill.
	Goodwin	John E.	Fortifications against a French invasion of the East Kent Coast of England 1750 - 1815.
	Bisset	Mac Eoin	Coast artillery in South Africa; 1899 - 1955.
	Rolf	Rudi	Revolving concrete turrets.
	Gander	T. J.	The explosive attack on Fort Eben-Emael.

FORT 17	King	D. Cathcart	John des Roches: a C 14^th. Staff Officer.
1989 108pp	Bury	John	The Personification of the Science of Fortification.
	Stevenson	Ian	Some West Country Defences.
	Bogart	Charles H.	La Fortaleza del Real Felipe in Peru.
	Dean	Martin	Changes in the role of Fortresses during the French Revolutionary Wars.
	Lecomte	Alain	The Séré de Rivière fortifications, 1874 - 1914.
	Kaufmann	Joseph	The Dutch and Belgian defences in 1940.

FORT 18	Chu	William	Computer graphics.
1990 128pp	Migos	Athanassios	Rhodes
	van Bergeijk	Herman	Francesco Tensini and the defences of Modena.
	Charbonneau	Andre	The Redoubt in New France Part 1.
	Hubbert	F.	Belle-Ile and the siege of 1761.
	Evans	David	The Duke of Richmond as Designer.
	Kaufmann	Joseph	The Maginot Line works at Fermont and Hackenberg.
	Gander	T. J.	Sweden’s Coastal Minelayers.

FORT 19	Wright	Nicholas	The fortified church at Chitry.
1991 127pp	Kitchen	Frank	Aspects of the defence of the south coast of England, 1756 - 1805.
	Grundy	Mark	The Martello towers of Minorca.
	Hughes	Quentin	Some thoughts on the Rotating Gun Platform.
	Wieringen	J. Van	The Grebbe Line.
	Pearson	Michael	Coast defence radar.

FORT 20	Charbonneau	Andre	The Redoubt in New France, Part II.
1992 122pp	Skorikov	Y. & A. Rasdolgin	The Kronstadt Fortress
inc 4pp colour	Seeman	Ute	The Amsterdam Battery, Cape Town.
photos.	Smith	Victor T. C.	Fort George, St. Kitts.
	Howard	Neil	The Dogra Forts of Greater Ladakh, North West India.
	Hoof	Joep	Dutch Fortifications.
Fort Index: Volumes 1-20

FORT 21	Hughes	Quintin & Athanassios Migos	Rhodes, The Turkish sieges.
1993 128pp,	Reiss	Gunther	Fortifications in Switzerland from 1860 - 1945.
frequent colour photos in text	Hughes	Quentin	Kronstadt and the Crimean War.
	Mitchell	John	The Russian Scare Harbour Forts of Auckland, New Zealand.
	Spiteri	Stephen	Illustrated Glossary of military architecture terms.
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FORT 22	Harrison	Peter	Church Fortifications in La Thierache.
1994 160pp	Bury	John	Benedette da Ravenna (c 1485 - 1556).
	Jager	Herbert	The Model Fortress of Kaiser Wilhelm II in the Sanssouci Park.
	Richard	Pierre	Fort Mont Bart.
	Brzoskwinia	Waldemar & Jadwiga Srodulska-Wielgus	Fort No XIII San Rideau of the Przemysl Fortress.
	Prickett	Nigel	British Army Field Fortifications of the New Zealand Wars.
	Cornforth	A. J.	Fortified Group L’Aisne.

FORT 23	Bogart	Charles H.	Fort Harrod Kentucky.
1995 168pp	Garie	Franklin	Australian Colonial Forts.
	McGoven	Terrance	Manila Bay; The American harbour defences.
	Clerici	Carlo Alfredo & Eugenio Vajna de Pava	Coastal defences of Genoa during the Second World War.
	Locock	Martin	An Anti-Aircraft Battery at Newport Gwent.

FORT 24	Kovacic	Vanja	The defence of Omis in Croatia.
1996 148pp	Kasdagli	Anna-Maria & Katerina Manoussou-Della	The defences of Rhodes and the Tower of St. John.
	Crick	Timothy	Fortifications from Vauban to Jervois.
	Barros	Martin & Gunther Reiss	Fort Saint Sebastien and the defence of Bitche.
	Tomkinson	John	The Fortress Group at Aiguebelle.

FORT 25	Harrison	Peter	The Fortified Village of Ushguli in the Georgian Caucasus.
1997 234pp	Smith	Victor T. C.	Norham Castle and early artillery defences.
plus 30pp	Smith	Victor T. C.	The Defences of London during the English Civil War.
	Role	Raymond	Le Mura, Lucca's fortified enceinte.
	Hebbert	F. J.	Vauban and the building of Phalsbourg in 1679.
	Brown	Anthony	The Fortifications of Goa.
	Jenkins	Stanley	Pendennis Castle, Cornwall.
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FORT 26	McGoven	Terrance	The American Defences of the Panama Canal.
1998 246pp	Tomkinson	John	The Henrician Bastions at Guines Castle.
	Reiss	Gunther	Daniel von Salis-Soglio - Innovative Fortress designer.
	Tomlinson	Richard	Masonry blockhouses of the Anglo-Boer War 1900 - 1902.
	Kaufmann	Joseph	The Maginot Line - German Intelligence before the War.

FORT 27	Bruns	Andre	Luxemburg as a Federal Fortress 1815 - 1866.
1999 196pp	Martens	Pieter	A C16^th. drawing of two bulwarks at Arras.
	Lombaerde	Piet	The Fortifications of Ostend during the Great Siege of 1601-1604.
	Stevenson	Ian	The Defences of Cork Harbour in Ireland.
	McCall	Michael	The Martello Tower in Hambantota, Sri Lanka.
	Lowry	Bernard	The Anti-Invasion Defences of Western Command in 1940.

(FORT TWENTY-EIGHT (EUROFORT) 2000).

FORT 29	Swieciochowski	Slawomir	The castle of Montlhéry.
2001 168pp	Tomkinson	John	The Henrician Bastions of Ambleteuse.
	Vigano	Marino	Giovan Giacomo Paleari Fratino and the Tower at Mortella Point, Corsica (1563).
	Bogart	Charles H.	The Tubac Presidio and the Spanish defence of Arizona.
	Clements	William H.	The Medway Martellos.
	Reiss	Gunther	Daniel von Salis Soglio - Leader of Armoured Fortification.
	Jankovic	Aleksander	The Rupnik Line - Yugoslavia's western front.

(FORT THIRTY 2002)

(FORT THIRTY-ONE 2003)

FORT 32	Rolf	Rudi	German defences in the Channel Islands.
2004 192pp	McGoven	Terrance	The Hawaiian Turrets, Naval Turrets in Oahu's Coast Defences during WWII.
	Lowry	Bernard	The Maginot fortifications of Corsica.
	Denfield	D. Colt	Japanese Coastal and Island Defences in the Pacific.
	Harris	Edward Cecil	American Defence of British Bermuda, 1941 - 1945.
	Whitehorne	Joseph W. A.	The Liège Forts and Eben Emael.

FORT 33	Sarty	Dr Roger	Canada's Coastal fortifications of the Second World War.
2005 224pp	Kaufmann	J. E.	The Maginot Line, a Basic Primer.
	Smith	Boiling W.	Casemates or Turrets; the Evolution of the American Casemated 16-in Battery.
	Potocnik	Aleksander Jankovic	The First World War Fortresses and Battle of the Isonzo Front.
	Garcia	Juan Vasquez	The Coastal Defences of the Naval Base of Ferrol.
	Martini	John	Defense of the Golden Gate; Battery Cavallo - Survivor of the Plan of 1870.