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Author Title No. Year Pg
Grzegorz Bukal Prussian Star Forts in the 18th Century* 39 2011 3
Keith Phillips Naming of Forts* 39 2011 57
David Flintham A Hollar’s-eye View of 17th Century Fortifications* 39 2011 69
Denis De Lucca Gabriele Tadino Da Martinengo* 39 2011 82
Bill Allcorn Forts of Eastern and Northern Lake Ontario* 39 2011 94
David Flintham A Tale of Two Forts-London's Hyde Park and St. George's Fields Forts* 38 2010 3
Bill Clements Barren Rocks-Aden and Adscension Island: Two Volcanic Fortresses 1815-1945* 38 2010 14
John Harris Karlovac:The Renaissance Ideal City in Europe* 38 2010 56
Mick Diack Archaeological Excavations of the Lower Lines at Chatham* 38 2010 82
Christian Casartelli and Steve Butler The Fortifications of Spanish North Africa (Morocco)* 38 2010 98
Stanley C Jenkins Crab Quay Battery, Cornwall* 37 2009 3
Valera Tadra, Evgeny Khitriak and Ivan Volkov The Fortifications of Belarus-An Introduction* 37 2009 15
John Harris Sarzana and Sarzanello Transitional Design and Renaissance Designers* 37 2009 50
John Kinross The Fall of Singapore* 37 2009 79
Gunter D Reiss Tower Forts-an overview* 37 2009 90
Richard Tomlinson Update on South African Blockhouses* 37 2009 106
Bill Allcorn Forts of the Niagara Frontier, 1679-1963* 37 2009 109
Peter Harrison The Pa Maori of New Zealand* 36 2008 5
John Goodwin Selected 19th Century Manuals on Fortification for British Military Engineers* 36 2008 22
Terrance McGovern The Coastal Defences of Chesapeake Bay during World War Two* 36 2008 36
Raymond E Role The Naval Bases of Grand Duke Cosimo I de Medici: Livorno, Piombino & Cosmopolis* 36 2008 108
Svein Wiiger Olsen The 75mm Bofors Semi-automatic Turret Gun* 36 2008 130
V I Kalinin and S A Vorobiev The Far East of the USSR: steel and concrete against the Mikado: Coastal Defences and Land Border Fortified Regions of the Soviet Far East (1932-45)* 35 2007 5
Bill Clements St Helena: South Atlantic Fortress* 35 2007 75
Kemal Kutgün Eyupgiller The 18th-Century Fortifications of the Bosphorus and Istanbul, Turkey* 35 2007 91
David Flintham Whitechapel Mount* 35 2007 103
Stanley C Jenkins St Mawes Castle, Cornwall* 35 2007 153
Jonathan Millward The East Coast Martello Towers* 35 2007 173
Andrew Saunders Sárospatak Castle, Hungary* 34 2006 5
Roger Vella Bonavita The Opinion of Gian Giacomo Leonardi Count of Montelabatte on the design of the fortress that the Knights of St John of Jerusalem propose to build in Malta, 31 October 1557* 34 2006 19
Richard Tomlinson Three Centuries of fortifications in South Africa 1652-1958* 34 2006 39
Bill Clements Nineteenth and twentieth century artillery fortifications in Burma* 34 2006 159
Günther D Reiss The Fortified Front Oder-Warthe-Bogen near the pre-1939 German eastern border* 34 2006 129
Svein Wiiger Olsen & Terry Gander The Austrått Battery, Trondheimsfjord, Norway* 34 2006 178
Steve Carvell The Oxford Canal Stop Line: an illustrated survey* 34 2006 178
Nenad Seguljev, Aleksandar pavlovic & Phillip Wattles Petrovaradin Fortress – ‘Gibraltar of the Danube’* 34 2006 163
Dr Roger Sarty Canada’s Coastal fortifications of the Second World War 33 2005 3
J E Kaufmann The Maginot Line: A Basic Primer 33 2005 34
Bolling W Smith Casemates or Turrets: the Evolution of the American Casemated 16-inch Battery 33 2005 56
Aleksander Jankovic Potocnik The First World War Fortresses and Battles of the Isonzo Front 33 2005 180
Juan Vasquez Garcia The Coastal Defences of the Naval Base of Ferrol 33 2005 201
John Martini Defense of the Golden Gate: Battery Cavallo – Survivor of the Plan of 1870 33 2005 213
Rudi Rolf German defences in the Channel Islands 32 2004 5
Terrance McGovern The Hawaiian Turrets: Naval Turrets in Oahu’s Coast Defences during World War II 32 2004 36
Bernard Lowry The Maginot fortifications of Corsica 32 2004 87
D Colt Denfeld Japanese Coastal and Island Defences in the Pacific 32 2004 91
Edward Cecil Harris American Defence of British Bermuda, 1941 – 1945 32 2004 112
Joseph W A Whitehorne The Liège Forts and Eben Emael 32 2004 192
J R E Hamilton-Baillie A History of Fortification in the United Kingdom, 1870 to 1955 31 2003 6
Margaret Pinsent J.R.E.H-B and the Oxford Sub Group of the FSG 31 2003 41
Roger Vella Bonavita A Very Personal Appreciation 31 2003 46
Quentin Hughes a Chronology of Events related to the Turkish threat in the Mediterranean 31 2003 49
Quentin Hughes Errors of Judgement: the Seiges of Rhodes and Malta 31 2003 61
Quentin Hughes Italian Engineers Working for the Knights of Malta 31 2003 81
Slawomir Swieciochowski The castle of Montlhéry 29 2001 3
John Tomkinson Henrician Bastions of Ambleteuse 29 2001 21
Marino Viganò Giovan Giacomo Paleari Fratino and the tower at Mortella Point, Corsica (1563) 29 2001 41
Charles Bogart The Tubac Presidio and the Spanish defence of Arizona 29 2001 57
William H Clements The Medway Martellos 29 2001 75
Günther Reiss Daniel von Salis Soglio – leader of armoured fortification 29 2001 87
Aleksander Jankovic The Rupnik Line – Yugoslavia’s western front 29 2001 107
André Bruns Luxemburg as a Federal Fortress 1815-1866 27 1999 3
Pieter Martens A early sixteenth century drawing of two bulwarks at Arras* 27 1999 67
Piet Lombaerde The Fortifications of Ostend during the Great Siege of 1601-1604 27 1999 93
Ian Stevenson The Defences of Cork Harbour in Ireland 27 1999 113
Michael McCall The Martello Tower in Hambantota, Sri Lanka 27 1999 143
Bernard Lowry The Anti-Invasion Defences of Western Command in 1940 27 1999 159
Terrance McGovern The American Defences of the Panama Canal 26 1998 3
John Tomkinson Henrician Bastions at Guines Castle 26 1998 121
Günther Reiss Daniel von Salis-Soglio: Innovative Fortress designer 26 1998 143
Richard Tomlinson Masonry blockhouses of the Anglo-Boer War 1900-1902 26 1998 169
Joseph E Kaufmann The Maginot Line – German Intelligence before the War 26 1998 199
Peter Harrison The fortified village of Ushguli in the Georgian Caucasus 25 1997 3
Andrew Saunders Norham Castle and early artillery defences 25 1997 37
Victor Smith Defences of London during the English Civil War 25 1997 61
Raymond Role Le Mura: Lucca’s fortified enceinte (3.2MB)
 25 1997 83
F J Hebbert Vauban and the building of Phalsbourg in 1679 25 1997 111
Anthony Brown The fortifications of Goa 25 1997 141
Stanley Jenkins Pendennis Castle, Cornwall 25 1997 169
Vanja Kovacic The defence of Omis in Croatia: Fortifications of the Lower Reaches of the River Cetina 24 1996 3
Anna-Maria Kasdagli & Katerina Manoussou-Della The defences of Rhodes and the Tower of St John 24 1996 15
Timothy Crick Fortifications from Vauban to Jervois 24 1996 37
Martin Barros & Günther Reiss Fort Saint Sébastien and the defence of Bitche 24 1996 73
John Tomkinson The Fortress Group at Aiguebelle 24 1996 103
Charles Bogart Fort Harrod, Kentucky: A Colonial Frontier Fort 23 1995 3
Franklin Garie Australian Colonial Forts: A Brief History and Gazetteer 23 1995 19
Terrance McGovern Manila Bay: The American harbour defences 23 1995 65
Carlo Alfredo Clerici & Eugenio Vajna de Pava Coastal defences of Genoa during the Second World War 23 1995 111
Martin Locock An Anti-Aircraft Battery at Newport, Gwent 23 1995 127
Peter Harrison Church Fortifications in La Thiérache 22 1994 3
John Bury Benedetto da Ravenna (c.1485-1556) 22 1994 27
Herbert Jäger The Model Fort of Kaiser Wilhelm II in the Sanssouci Park 22 1994 39
Pierre Richard Fort Mont Bart 22 1994 57
Waldemar Brzoskwinia & Jadwiga Srodulska-Wielgus Fort No XIII San Rideau of the Przemysl Fortress 22 1994 89
Nigel Prickett British Army Field Fortifications of the New Zealand Wars 22 1994 111
A J Cornforth Fortified Group L’Aisne (no text) 22 1994 128
Quentin Hughes & Athanassios Migos Rhodes: The Turkish sieges 21 1993 3
Günther Reiss Fortifications in Switzerland from 1860-1945 21 1993 19
Quentin Hughes Kronstadt and the Crimean War 21 1993 55
John Mitchell The Russian Scare Harbour Forts of Auckland, New Zealand 21 1993 83
Stephen Spiteri Illustrated Glossary of military architecture terms 21 1993 105
André Charbonneau The Redoubt in New France Part II 20 1992 3
Y A Skorikov & A A Rasdolgin The Kronstadt Fortress 20 1992 27
Ute A Seeman The Amsterdam Battery, Cape Town 20 1992 45
Victor T C Smith Fort George, St Kitts 20 1992 55
Neil F Howard The Dogra Forts of Greater Ladakh, North West India 20 1992 71
Joep P C M Hoof Dutch Fortifications 20 1992 87
Nicholas Wright The fortified church at Chitry 19 1991 5
Frank Kitchen Aspects of the defence of the south coast of England: 1756-1805 19 1991 11
Mark Grundy The Martello towers of Minorca 19 1991 23
Quentin Hughes Some thoughts on the rotating gun platform 19 1991 59
J S Van Wieringen The Grebbe Line 19 1991 73
Michael Pearson Coast defence radar 19 1991 93
William Chu Computer graphics 18 1990 3
Athanassios Migos Rhodes: the Knights’ battleground 18 1990 5
Herman van Bergeijk Francesco Tensini and the defences of Modena 18 1990 29
André Charbonneau The Redoubt in New France Part I 18 1990 43
F J Hebbert Belle-Île and the siege of 1761 18 1990 83
David Evans The Duke of Richmond as designer 18 1990 83
J E Kaufmann The Maginot Line works at Fermont and Hackenberg 18 1990 95
T Gander Sweden’s coastal minelayers 18 1990 113
D Cathcart King John des Roches: a C14th Staff Officer 17 1989 3
John Bury The personification of the science of fortification* 17 1989 7
Ian V Stevenson Some West Country defences* 17 1989 11
Charles H Bogart La Fortaleza del Real Felipe in Peru* 17 1989 27
Martin C Dean Changes in the role of fortresses during the French revolutionary wars* 17 1989 37
Alain Lecomte The Séré de Rivière fortifications, 1873-1914* 17 1989 43
Joseph Kaufmann The Dutch and Belgian defences in 1940* 17 1989 57
W F K Engelbrecht A bastioned entrenchment in Holland 16 1988 4
Gianni Perbellini The Venetian defences of Cyprus 16 1988 7
John R Kenyon The state of fortifications in the West Country in 1623 16 1988 45
Alain Salamagne Fortifications du XVIIe siècle dans le nord de la France 16 1988 53
David Evans The Duke of Richmond, James Glenie, Maker and the Fortifications Bill 16 1988 73
John E Goodwin Fortifications against a French invasion of the East Kent coast of England. 1750-1815 16 1988 83
Mac Eoin Bisset Coast artillery in South Africa; 1899-1955 16 1988 97
Rudi Rolf Revolving concrete turrets 16 1988 119
Terry Gander The explosive attack on Fort Eben-Emael 16 1988 129
Daniela Lamberini Practice and Theory in sixteenth century fortifications 15 1987 5
Alan Mardis A battery in Bermuda 15 1987 21
Peter Harrington English Civil War fortifications 15 1987 39
Quentin Hughes Wellington & fortifications 15 1987 61
Douglas Howell-Everson Victorian Fortress Strategy in the United Kingdom 15 1987 91
David Evans A proposed installation of a tide gauge in the Palmerston sea forts 15 1987 101
M Kitson Australia: The South Channel defences at Port Phillip: Factors in the design, 1876-1909 15 1987 105
William Allcorn The Maginot Line in the Alps 15 1987 135
John R Kenyon The Library Catalogue: Supplement One 15 1987 153
Daniela Lamberini The military architecture of Giovanni Battista Belluzzi 14 1986 5
Quentin Hughes The defences of Corfu 14 1986 17
Peter Kent The Militant Trinity: the role of Wellinton, Burgoyne and Palmerston in fortification policy, 1830-1860 14 1986 39
Norman H Clark Twentieth century coastal defence of the Firth of Forth 14 1986 49
David Clark & Alan Rudd The Trow Rock floating Platform 14 1986 55
Charles H Bogart The Puget Sound Defense Command 14 1986 61
Franklin Garie The movement and preservation of heavy seacoast ordnance: two 10-inch RML Armstrong guns at Fort Glanville in South Australia 14 1986 71
William Allcorn The Maginot Line in northern France 14 1986 79
John Bury Early Writing on Fortification and Siegecraft, 1502-1554* 13 1985 5
Peter Kent Kings Lynn* 13 1985 49
Stephen Bull Mortars at Elizabeth Castle, Jersey, in 1651* 13 1985 61
Anthony Cantwell The Needles defences* 13 1985 69
Victor Smith Defending the Forth, 1880-1910 13 1985 89
John R Kenyon The FSG Library Catalogue* 13 1985 103
James Petre Historians and the Role of Castles in the Wars of the Roses 12 1984 5
John Tomkinson Valenca do Minho 12 1984 11
David H Caldwell A 16th Century group of Gun Towers in Scotland 12 1984 15
Quentin Hughes A project for the defence of Paris 12 1984 25
N A Ruckley Inchkeith: The water supply of an island fortress 12 1984 67
John Tomkinson The Main Magazine for Fort Hubberston at Milford Haven 12 1984 83
H.M le Page The Fortified Place of Antwerp 12 1984 87
R Hogg The Tyne Turrets: coastal defence of First World War 12 1984 97
T J Gander American 16 inch Coast Defence Guns in the Second World War 12 1984 104
Charles Trollope The Defences of Harwich 11 1983 5
John R Kenyon Terminology and Early Artillery Fortification 11 1983 31
John R Kenyon A hitherto Unknown Early 17th Century Survey of Southern England 11 1983 35
G H Williams The Stokes Bay Moat near Portsmouth 11 1983 57
Margaret Pinsent The Defences of the Bristol Channel in the last two centuries 11 1983 62
Ian Hunt Plymouth Sound? The Defence of a Naval Station 11 1983 78
Quentin Hughes Military Architecture and the Printed Book 10 1982 4
John Bury The early history of the Explosive Mine* 10 1982 23
Simon Pepper The Underground Siege* 10 1982 31
Gustina Scaglia Francesco di Giorgio’s Chapters on Fortresses and on War Machines 10 1982 39
Quentin Hughes The siege of Fort St Elmo in 1565 10 1982 71
Simon Pepper Firepower in the Design of Renaissance Fortifications 10 1982 93
John Donnelly A study of Coastal Forts built by Henry VIII 10 1982 105
Victor T C Smith Excavations of the Site of Milton Blockhouse, Gravesend 10 1982 127
E A Andrews & M.L Pinsent The coastal defences of Portland and Weymouth 9s 1981 4
W F D Jervois War Office letters about Portland 9s 1981 44
Quentin Hughes The Duke of Wellington’s warning of invasion 9s 1981 54
Carlo Forti The Fortifications of Genoa Leone 9 1981 7
David Hansen The Gun-lift Battery in the defences of the United States 9 1981 11
J R E Hamilton-Baillie The Coast Defences of Orkney in Two World Wars* 9 1981 21
Andrew Powter Concrete in 19th Century Fortifications constructed by the Royal Engineers 9 1981 31
J E Portlock & C H Nugent The state of the art of fortification towards the end of the 19th century 9 1981 43
Encyclopaedia Britannica 9th Ed Fortification 9 1981 46
Harry D Inglis The Channel Islands; Jersey, Guernsey, etc 8s 1980 5
T G Davenport & C W Partridge The Victorian fortification of Alderney 8s 1980 7
W F D Jervois Short description of Works proposed and in progress at Alderney Isle 8s 1980 35
Quentin Hughes Cherbourg: a French naval base 8s 1980 45
Some references to the defences of Alderney in the Public Records Office, London 8s 1980 55
D F Renn The Enceinte Wall of Quarr Abbey* 8 1980 5
John Bury Are Renaissance Fortifications Beautiful?* 8 1980 7
T G Davenport & C.W. Partridge The Victorian fortification of Alderney* 8 1980 21
John R Kenyon James Fergusson: a critic of early Victorian military architecture* 8 1980 47
B K Pegden The Purchase of Bricks for Martello Towers in the year 1804* 8 1980 55
Ian V Hogg Notes on the Identification of Coast Artillery Gun Emplacements* 8 1980 61
Quentin Hughes Letters from the defence Committee in 1861 8 1980 71
Simon Pepper The meaning of the Renaissance Fortress (4.3MB)
 7 1979 3
P K Yeoh Fortress Singapore 7 1979 13
Douglas Turnbull Some problems about the origin of Criccieth Castle 7 1979 52
Quentin Hughes Russian views on the English Defences in 1864 7 1979 69
David Barnes Artillery fortifications in the south-east – a review* 6 1978 5
Ian V Hogg The rise and fall of the disappearing carriage* 6 1978 13
John R Kenyon St Andrew’s castle, Hampshire in 1623* 6 1978 24
Roger Vella Bonavita The 100-ton gun at Rinella Battery in Malta* 6 1978 26
J R E Hamilton-Baillie More notes on the siege exercises at Chatham 1907* 6 1978 34
Norman Hodgson An introduction to the defences of Dover* 6 1978 38
Rosalind Tod Scottish Castles 5 1978 9
John Bury Francisco de Holanda – a source for the history of C16th Fortification 5 1978 23
P G Griffith The Strategic Challenge to the French Engineers: 1815-1851 5 1978 61
John Tomkinson The Open Battery of Hubberston 5 1978 65
Keith Gulvin & Quentin Hughes The Twydall Profile 5 1978 75
Victor T C Smith Chatham Siege Operations in 1907 5 1978 85
Martin S Alexander Pilgrimage to Verdun: 1916-1976 5 1978 93
Quentin Hughes The Fortifications of Malta 4 1977 5
John R Kenyon Early Gunports 4 1977 75
F J Malpas Some lesser known Henrician Castles 4 1977 85
Hellmut Pfluger The Defences of Ulm 4 1977 93
John R Kenyon Artillery and the Defences of Southampton Circa 1360-1660 3 1977 21
J R E Hamilton-Baillie Fort Halstead & the London Defence Positions 3 1977 31
Hartwig Neumann The Study of Fortifications in Germany 3 1977 35
Edmund Malacowicz Fortifications in Poland 3 1977 53
P Griffiths Fortress Wargames 2 1976 15
John Goodwin Circular Masonry Redoubts 2 1976 19
Anthony Kemp The Maginot Line today 2 1976 27
Simon Pepper Planning versus fortification; Sangallo’s project for the defence of Rome (0.8MB)
 2 1976 33
Simon Pepper Italian Renaissance Fortifications 1 1976 29
John R Kenyon Early Artillery Fortifications in England & Wales 1 1976 33
Quentin Hughes The last of the big guns at Gibraltar 1 1976 37