Maintenance and use of historic major fortresses

This book was published after the conference in the maintenance and use of historic major fortresses of the 19th century. This conference took place in Magdeburg in June 2005. During the conference many speeches were held on all kind of subjects related to the subject of the conference. Speeches held by experts from all over Europe. The book contains the text of these speeches.

Some of the subjects in the book: Fortress Magdeburg, Fortress Cologne, Fortress Pola, Stelling van Amsterdam, Fortress Thorn, Feste Wagner, Fortifications of Koblenz, Fortifications of Komarno, Spandau, Linz, Fort Thüngen, Fortress Erfurt, Germersheim, Kiel, Krakow, Posen, Kiew, etc. etc.

The book is written in German, but each chapter has an English summary  and is illustrated with MANY HUNDREDS of photos, plans, drawings, maps and documents. One of the most important books published on fortifications and maintenance and use of them in the last couple of years - an ABSOLUTE MUST for anyone involved in restoring fortifications and fortresses!