Vladimir Bartol
Alamut takes place in 11th Century Persia, in the fortress of Alamut, where self-proclaimed prophet Hasan ibn Sabbah is setting up his mad but brilliant plan to rule the region with a handful elite fighters who are to become his "living daggers.& [... more]
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Fortress America
 From Amazon.com: In their efforts to find a safe, quiet, traffic- and crime-free place to live, more and more Americans are turning to gated communities--self-enclosed developments barricaded off from surrounding neighborhoods, often using security [... more]
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The Fortifications of Gibraltar 1068-1945
Gibraltar is not only an archetypal fortress, preserving in its dominating topography and walls, bastions and emplacements a rich testament to extended periods of human conflict, but it is also a unique record of the evolution of the sciences of ... [... more]
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Randy E. M. Foster
Impressive in terms of scale and structure, the Fire Support Base became a dominant element in ground maneuver during the Vietnam War. Initially a mobile base, it soon evolved into a semi-permanent and more sophisticated fortress as a result of ... [... more]
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Gordon Pitts
Gordon Pitts is an editor and writer at The Globe and Mail's Report on Business, specializing in entrepreneurship and management. His first book, Storming the Fortress, was a finalist for a National Business Book Award. He lives in Toronto. A ... [... more]
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William C. Dietz
As the fortress world of Reach and its brave defenders were... Bred to kill, Agent 47 is The Agency's most valuable assassin. So when a competing murder-for-hire organization decides to destroy The Agency, the first person they target for ... [... more]
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The Road to Verdun
World War I's Most Momentous Battle and the Folly of Nationalism On February 21, 1916, the Germans launched a surprise offensive at Verdun, an important fortress in northeastern France, sparking a brutal and protracted conflict that would claim ... [... more]
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The Da Vinci Code
DAN BROWN is the bestselling author of Digital Fortress, Angels & Demons, and Deception Point. He lives in New England. As millions of readers around the globe have already discovered, While in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is ... [... more]
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Fortress of Eagles
From Amazon.com: In Fortress in the Eye of Time, the wizard Mauryl Gestaurien summoned his greatest spell and created Tristen, the gray-eyed youth with strange powers. Mauryl's death sends the innocent Tristen out into the world, where he is befriended [... more]
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Sharpes Fortress TV Tie in Edition
From Amazon.com: Fighting in the millet fields of India circa 1803, Richard Sharpe knows trouble when he sees it: dissension in the ranks, a feverish and arrogant enemy, nobody to confide in. Unbeknownst to his comrades, Sharpe has buried a fortune in [... more]
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Flight from the Fortress
Amazon.ca: In her latest novel for middle readers, veteran children's writer Lyn Cook delves into the checkered history of the fortified town of Louisbourg, on Canada's East Coast. The second of her books to be set in New France (the first was The Hiding [... more]
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The Medieval Fortress: Castles, Forts, And Walled Cities ...
Medieval Fortress by Kaufmann: This is an excellent work. It would be perfect for a student project with a focus on Middle Ages building designs. The author provides detailed engineering specifications for castles, forts, a motte and rising towers. The [... more]
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