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  • Rangeley's Historic Legacy by Priest, Gary
    Gary Priest

    Rangeley's Historic Legacy

    Discover the history of Rangeley through historic photographs and how the town continues to draw thousands of visitors annually. Rangeley, Maine, was settled in 1817 when Luther Hoar brought his family from Madrid to a log cabin he had built on the shore of...
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  • Preserving Ballard by Ballard Historical Society
    Ballard Historical Society

    Preserving Ballard

    As the first community to incorporate after Washington achieved statehood in 1890, the original city of Ballard has one of most storied histories in the state. Bordered by Salmon Bay, the famous Ballard Locks, a bascule bridge, and the Salish Sea, the longtime joke...
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  • Beyond Preservation: Using Public History to Revitalize Inner Cities by Hurley, Andrew
    Andrew Hurley

    Beyond Preservation: Using Public History to Revitalize Inner Cities

    Across the United States, historic preservation has become a catalyst for urban regeneration. Entrepreneurs, urban pioneers, and veteran city dwellers have refurbished thousands of dilapidated properties and put them to productive use as shops, restaurants, nightclubs, museums, and private residences. As a result, inner-cities,...
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  • Architectural Conservation: Principles and Practice by Orbasli, Aylin
    Aylin Orbasli

    Architectural Conservation: Principles and Practice

    This book provides an introductory text for students in built environment disciplines, as well as those who manage or own historic properties, and those embarking upon architectural conservation professionally. It is designed to give an understanding of the main principles, materials and problems in...
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  • Wood Island Lighthouse: Stories from the Edge of the Sea by Parsons, Richard
    Richard Parsons

    Wood Island Lighthouse: Stories from the Edge of the Sea

    Wood Island Lighthouse is the fifth-oldest lighthouse in the state, and it has cast its beacon into the Gulf of Maine for more than two hundred years. Its myths and legends have passed through the generations as it set the scene for murders, suicides,...
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  • Theatre Royal Drury Lane: A Star Reborn by Hartshorne, Pamela
    Pamela Hartshorne

    Theatre Royal Drury Lane: A Star Reborn

    - Brand new guide to the world's oldest theater site in continuous use- Published to mark the reopening of the theater following the major renovation project which has restored the theater's Georgian glory- Tells the rich history of this great London theater and its...
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  • Colonial & Antebellum Virginia: Images of Montgomery County's Historical-Cultural Landscape by Good, Charles M.
    Charles M. Good

    Colonial & Antebellum Virginia: Images of Montgomery County's Historical-Cultural Landscape

    Virginia has long been regarded as a place of great historical significance. Yet, the noteworthy events of the pre-Civil War era in the Commonwealth's southwestern region, Montgomery County in particular, have long been overshadowed by other parts of the state. Montgomery County played many...
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  • Conservation and Restoration of Glass by Davison, Sandra
    Sandra Davison

    Conservation and Restoration of Glass

    Conservation and Restoration of Glass is an in-depth guide to the materials and practices required for the care and preservation of glass objects. It provides thorough coverage of both theoretical and practical aspects of glass conservation.This new edition of Newton and Davison's original book,...
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  • Munich and Memory: Architecture, Monuments, and the Legacy of the Third Reichvolume 22 by Rosenfeld, Gavriel D.
    Gavriel D. Rosenfeld

    Munich and Memory: Architecture, Monuments, and the Legacy of the Third Reich Volume 22

    Munich, notorious in recent history as the capital of the Nazi movement, is the site of Gavriel Rosenfeld's stimulating inquiry into the German collective memory of the Third Reich. Rosenfeld shows, with the aid of a wealth of photographs, how the city's urban form...
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  • Saving Thoreau's Birthplace: How Citizens Rallied to Bring Henry Out of the Woods by Stott, Lucille
    Lucille Stott

    Saving Thoreau's Birthplace: How Citizens Rallied to Bring Henry Out of the Woods

    A story of citizens who joined forces and worked through their differences to prevent a cultural landmark from being lost forever.In 1995, plans were under way to destroy the 18th-century house in Concord, Massachusetts, where Henry David Thoreau was born. The 20 acres on...
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  • Holocene Hunter-Gatherers of the Lower Ohio River Valley by Jefferies, Richard
    Richard Jefferies

    Holocene Hunter-Gatherers of the Lower Ohio River Valley

    By the Early Holocene (10,000 to 8,000 B.P.), small wandering bands of Archaic hunter-gatherers began to annually follow the same hunting trails, basing their temporary camps on seasonal conditions and the presence of food. The Pleistocene glaciers had receded by this time, making food...
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  • Une Belle Maison: The Lombard Plantation House in New Orleans's Bywater by Starr, S. Frederick
    S. Frederick Starr

    Une Belle Maison: The Lombard Plantation House in New Orleans's Bywater

    Described in an 1835 bill of sale as une belle maison, the Lombard plantation house is a rare survivor. Built in the early nineteenth century as a West Indian-style residence, it was the focal point of a large plantation that stretched deep into the...
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  • The Layman's Guide to Classical Architecture by Terry, Quinlan
    Quinlan Terry

    The Layman's Guide to Classical Architecture

    Acclaimed British architect Quinlan Terry's guide to more than 2,000 years of classicism in architectureIn this beautiful illustrated survey, British architect Quinlan Terry (born 1937) presents his ultimate guide to classical architecture. With intricate and lively sketches, he explains the classical orders of architecture...
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  • Hotel Ponce de Leon: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Flagler's Gilded Age Palace by Keys, Leslee F.
    Leslee F. Keys

    Hotel Ponce de Leon: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Flagler's Gilded Age Palace

    "Presents new information about the creation and construction of the Hotel Ponce de Leon, its eighty years as a luxury resort hotel, and its transformation into the centerpiece of Flagler College. Keys does an excellent job of capturing the historical, cultural, and even political...
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  • Sustainability & Historic Preservation: Toward a Holistic View by Longstreth, Richard
    Richard Longstreth

    Sustainability & Historic Preservation: Toward a Holistic View

    Sustainability and Historic Preservation: Towards a Holistic View broadens the horizons of the mushrooming drive to correlate the objectives of these two spheres. To date, discussions of the relationship between historic preservation and sustainability have generally focused on the energy consumption of buildings. The...
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  • Belyayevo Forever: A Soviet Microrayon on Its Way to the UNESCO List by Snopek, Kuba
    Kuba Snopek

    Belyayevo Forever: A Soviet Microrayon on Its Way to the UNESCO List

    Preservation is ordinarily reserved for architecture that is unique. So how would we go about preserving buildings that are utterly generic? Such is the case with Belyayevo, an ordinary residential district in Moscow. Belyayevo is a typical microrayon - the standardised neighbourhood system that...
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  • Bricks & Brownstone: The New York Row House by Lockwood, Charles
    Charles Lockwood

    Bricks & Brownstone: The New York Row House

    The much-awaited reissue and reexpression of the classic New York row-house book Bricks and Brownstone, with all-new and updated text, new color photography, and luxury slipcase. The classic book Bricks & Brownstone, the first and still the only volume to examine in depth the...
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  • The Road to Blair Mountain: Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal by Keeney, Charles B.
    Charles B. Keeney

    The Road to Blair Mountain: Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal

    "Keeney delivers a riveting and propulsive story about a nine-year battle to save sacred ground that was the site of the largest labor uprising in American history. . . . He unveils a powerful playbook on successful activism that will inspire countless others for...
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  • Synagogues: Marvels of Judaism by Uluhanli, Leyla
    Leyla Uluhanli

    Synagogues: Marvels of Judaism

    The most significant volume on synagogue architecture and design to date--brought to life by a stunning array of newly commissioned and archival photographs. This visually striking compendium illustrates the architectural and historical evolution of over 60 iconic synagogues worldwide. Beginning with the foremost archaeological...
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  • New Orleans Architecture: Volume IX: Carrollton by Cangelosi, Robert J.
    Robert J. Cangelosi

    New Orleans Architecture: Volume IX: Carrollton

    An essential reference guide to one of New Orleans's most iconic Uptown neighborhoods, New Orleans Architecture: Volume IX documents the remarkable architectural history of the former city of Carrollton, once the seat of Jefferson Parish and now listed on the National Register of Historic...
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  • Case Study Houses. the Complete CSH Program 1945-1966 by Smith, Elizabeth A. T.
    Elizabeth A. T. Smith

    Case Study Houses. the Complete CSH Program 1945-1966

    The Case Study House program (1945-66) was an exceptional, innovative event in the history of American architecture and remains to this day unique. The program, which concentrated on the Los Angeles area and oversaw the design of 36 prototype homes, sought to make available...
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  • Bunker Hill Los Angeles: Essence of Sunshine and Noir by Marsak, Nathan
    Nathan Marsak

    Bunker Hill Los Angeles: Essence of Sunshine and Noir

    Bunker Hill is the highest point of downtown Los Angeles, both literally and figuratively. Its circle of life has created a continuous saga of change, each chapter rich with captivating characters, structures, and culture. In Bunker Hill Los Angeles: Essence of Sunshine and Noir,...
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  • How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built by Brand, Stewart
    Stewart Brand

    How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built

    A captivating exploration of the ever-evolving world of architecture and the untold stories buildings tell. When a building is finished being built, that isn't the end of its story. More than any other human artifacts, buildings improve with time--if they're allowed to. Buildings adapt...
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  • Historic Rural Churches of Georgia by Seals, Sonny
    Sonny Seals

    Historic Rural Churches of Georgia

    Aspects of Georgia's unique history can only be told through its extant rural churches. As the Georgia backcountry rapidly expanded in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the churches erected on this newly parceled land became the center of community life. These early...
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  • Palm Springs: A Modernist Paradise by Street-Porter, Tim
    Tim Street-Porter

    Palm Springs: A Modernist Paradise

    Paying homage to the seminal mid-century modern architecture of Palm Springs, this luxurious book showcases historic jet-set homes designed by legendary talents such as Richard Neutra, Albert Frey, and Paul Williams, as well as private residences by today's leading tastemakers.Since Gary Cooper built one...
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  • Colonial Village: Kittery Point and Kittery, Maine by Frost, John Eldridge
    John Eldridge Frost

    Colonial Village: Kittery Point and Kittery, Maine

    Colonial Village was written by John Eldridge Frost in 1947 to document the history of homes and other structures built in the village of Kittery Point, Maine prior to 1800. Equally important are the engaging stories of the people, famous and not-so-famous, who inhabited...
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  • Bending the Future: Fifty Ideas for the Next Fifty Years of Historic Preservation in the United States by Page, Max
    Max Page

    Bending the Future: Fifty Ideas for the Next Fifty Years of Historic Preservation in the United States

    The year 2016 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act, the cornerstone of historic preservation policy and practice in the United States. The act established the National Register of Historic Places, a national system of state preservation offices and local commissions,...
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  • Lost Plantations of the South by Matrana, Marc R.
    Marc R. Matrana

    Lost Plantations of the South

    The great majority of the South's plantation homes have been destroyed over time, and many have long been forgotten. In Lost Plantations of the South, Marc R. Matrana weaves together photographs, diaries and letters, architectural renderings, and other rare documents to tell the story...
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  • The Painted House of Maud Lewis: Conserving a Folk Art Treasure by Hamilton, Laurie
    Laurie Hamilton

    The Painted House of Maud Lewis: Conserving a Folk Art Treasure

    For many years, Maud Lewis was one of Nova Scotia's best-loved folk painters. In the 1990s she was embraced by the rest of the country when the landmark exhibition of her work The Illuminated Life of Maud Lewis travelled across Canada. By the time...
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  • Period Homes - Styles & Original Features: An Easy Reference Guide by Yorke, Trevor
    Trevor Yorke

    Period Homes - Styles & Original Features: An Easy Reference Guide

    Are you ready to step inside the world of period homes? To unlock the secrets of the iconic buildings we see throughout the cities, towns, and villages of Britain? Then this is the book for you. Period homes are all around us. Not only...
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  • Lincoln by Zimmer, Edward
    Edward Zimmer

    Lincoln

    The village of Lancaster became the state of Nebraska's first capital city in 1867, renamed Lincoln. Not everyone predicted its success. One early observer noted: There are no roads leading to it now. It has no commerce and there is scarcely a wagon load...
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  • Emergence of a Modern Dwelling: Richard Neutra's Hassrick House by Barucco, Suzanna
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    Emergence of a Modern Dwelling: Richard Neutra's Hassrick House

    In the East Falls neighborhood of Philadelphia, just beyond the northern boundary of the Thomas Jefferson University's East Falls campus, stands the Hassrick House (1958-61), designed by celebrated architect Richard Neutra, an icon of mid-century modern style. Often described as an East Coast interpretation...
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  • Preservation, Sustainability, and Equity by
    Erica Avrami

    Preservation, Sustainability, and Equity

    Heritage occupies a privileged position within the built environment. Most municipalities in the United States, and nearly all countries around the world, have laws and policies to preserve heritage in situ, seeking to protect places from physical loss and the forces of change. That...
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  • Lost Hanover, New Hampshire by Barrett, Frank J., Jr.
    Frank J. Jr. Barrett

    Lost Hanover, New Hampshire

    From the moment in 1770 when Reverend Eleazar Wheelock located Dartmouth College in Hanover, the College on the Hill and the Village at the College have been inseparably linked as one. And from the time when the first log hut was constructed to the...
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  • Great Camps of the Adirondacks by Kaiser, Harvey H.
    Harvey H. Kaiser

    Great Camps of the Adirondacks

    The complete guide to the historic great camps and Adirondack Rustic Style architecture.Author: Harvey H. KaiserISBN-10: 1567926428ISBN-13: 9781567926422Publisher: David R. Godine PublisherLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/09/2020Pages: 293Format: HardcoverWeight: 4.15lbsSize: 11.97h x 9.69w x 1.10d
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  • Historic Homes and Inns of Carmel-By-The-Sea by Dramov, Alissandra
    Alissandra Dramov

    Historic Homes and Inns of Carmel-By-The-Sea

    Historic Homes and Inns of Carmel-by-the-Sea showcases the creativity, talent, and originality of the town s residents, designers, and builders over a span of 80 years, from the pioneering days of the 1880s through the more contemporary ones of the 1960s. One-of-a-kind creations by...
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  • The Art of the Stonemason, 2021 Edition by Cramb, Ian
    Ian Cramb

    The Art of the Stonemason

    Drawing on five generations of family tradition as stonemasons in his Native Scotland, Ian Cramb created this masterful work to pass on his knowledge and experience to craftsmen who wish to learn the ancient, but still necessary, principles of the stonemason's art.Author: Ian CrambISBN-10:...
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  • Hidden White House by Klara, Robert
    Robert Klara

    Hidden White House

    Critically acclaimed author Robert Klara's The Hidden White House leads readers through an unmatched tale of political ambition and technical skill: the Truman administration's controversial rebuilding of the White House. In 1948, President Harry Truman, enjoying a bath on the White House's second floor,...
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  • Historic Shenandoah: Rediscovering Miami's Neighborhoods by McLaughlin, Megan R.
    Megan R. McLaughlin

    Historic Shenandoah: Rediscovering Miami's Neighborhoods

    Historic Shenandoah: Rediscovering Miami's NeighborhoodsVolume 1: Main ReportMiami is best known for its beaches, tropical scenery, skyscrapers, and luxury condominiums. Although Miami is one of the nation's youngest metropolises, it has experienced tremendous growth due to land speculation, government policy, and immigration. Despite Miami's...
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  • The Early Residential Buildings of Trinity College Dublin: Architecture, Financing, People by Somerville, R. a.
    R. a. Somerville

    The Early Residential Buildings of Trinity College Dublin: Architecture, Financing, People

    This book contains a history of the early buildings of Trinity College, from the Elizabethan Quadrangle up to the residential buildings of the early 18th century. Among all those red-brick buildings only the Rubrics remains, albeit much altered, to suggest what Trinity College looked...
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  • Inside Allerton: The Essential Guide to Robert Allerton Park by Finnigan, David L.
    David L. Finnigan

    Inside Allerton: The Essential Guide to Robert Allerton Park

    Named one of the Seven Wonders of Illinois, Robert Allerton Park is visited by nearly 100,000 people annually. Allerton, a wealthy Chicago philanthropist and art collector, donated his palatial country estate to the University of Illinois in 1946 with the intent that it should...
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  • Old Louisville by Domine, David
    David Domine

    Old Louisville

    A forty-five-square-block neighborhood in the heart of Kentucky's largest city, Old Louisville is among the largest and most significant historic preservation districts in America. Comprising some 1,400 structures built primarily between 1885 and 1905, it is a veritable time capsule of late-Victorian and early...
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  • Historic Houses of Philadelphia: A Tour of the Region's Museum Homes by Moss, Roger W.
    Roger W. Moss

    Historic Houses of Philadelphia: A Tour of the Region's Museum Homes

    With 160 color photographs that invite the reader to step over the threshold, Historic Houses of Philadelphia brings the region's most impressive museum homes to life. The only comprehensive readers' tour of the nation's richest array of historic residences open to the public, the...
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  • House in Fez: Building a Life in the Ancient Heart of Morocco by Clarke, Suzanna
    Suzanna Clarke

    House in Fez: Building a Life in the Ancient Heart of Morocco

    The Medina -- the Old City -- of Fez is the best-preserved, medieval walled city in the world. Inside this vibrant Moroccan community, internet cafes and mobile phones coexist with a maze of donkey-trod alleyways, thousand-year-old sewer systems, and ArabAuthor: Suzanna ClarkeISBN-10: 1416578935ISBN-13: 9781416578932Publisher:...
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  • The Incredible Scream Machine: A History of the Roller Coaster by Cartmell, Robert
    Robert Cartmell

    The Incredible Scream Machine: A History of the Roller Coaster

    In 1984 America celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of the first successful roller coaster device: La Marcus A. Thompson's switchback railway, erected at Coney Island. Robert Cartmell examines every phase of roller coaster history, from the use of the roller coaster by Albert Einstein...
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  • Preserving Ballard by Ballard Historical Society
    Ballard Historical Society

    Preserving Ballard

    As the first community to incorporate after Washington achieved statehood in 1890, the original city of Ballard has one of most storied histories in the state.Bordered by Salmon Bay, the famous Ballard Locks, a bascule bridge, and the Salish Sea, the longtime joke was...
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  • Chinese Wallpaper in Britain and Ireland by Bruijn, Emile de
    Emile de Bruijn

    Chinese Wallpaper in Britain and Ireland

    Chinese wallpaper has been an important element of western interior decoration for three hundred years. As trade between Europe and China flourished in the seventeenth century, Europeans developed a strong taste for Chinese art and design. The stunningly beautiful wall coverings now known as...
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  • Philadelphia Architecture: A Guide to the City, Fourth Edition by Gallery, John Andrew
    John Andrew Gallery

    Philadelphia Architecture: A Guide to the City, Fourth Edition

    Philadelphia Architecture, A Guide to the City (Fourth Edition) provides more than three hundred descriptions and photographs, both color and black and white, of the city's architecturally most significant buildings. Spanning more than three hundred years, these great buildings characterize Philadelphia as unique among...
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  • 100 Lost Architectural Treasures of Old Charlotte by Erdman, David W.
    David W. Erdman

    100 Lost Architectural Treasures of Old Charlotte

    In its ascent to becoming a top-20 city, Charlotte, North Carolina, has demolished one-by-one a greater proportion of its historic buildings than were lost to Chicago in the great Chicago Fire or to San Francisco in the 1906 earthquake.Through photographs and brief essays, 100...
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  • Anglo-Boer War Blockhouses - A Military Engineer's Perspective by Green, Simon C.
    Simon C. Green

    Anglo-Boer War Blockhouses - A Military Engineer's Perspective

    Anglo-Boer War Blockhouses is a fresh analytical look at how the construction of over 9,000 small fortifications during the Anglo-Boer War sought to change its course. The author examines all aspects of the South African blockhouses during the war: how the initial concept of...
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