Text and detailed drawings follow the planning and construction of a "typical" castle and adjoining town in thirteenth-century Wales.

An illustrated exploration of a wide array of castles and fortifications throughout the world, from Norman mottes to Maori forts, including how and why they were built and their importance in history.

Explores medieval castles, how they were constructed, how they were protected, who worked them, and the nobles who lived in them.

Three women, haunted by the past and the secrets they hold Set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, a powerful and propulsive story of three widows whose lives and fates become intertwined--an affecting, shocking, and ultimately redemptive novel from the author of the New York Times Notable Book The Hazards of Good Breeding. Amid the ashes of Nazi Germany's defeat, Marianne...

Ibb, curious about the lone castle in her town, forms a long-distant friendship with the guard and, despite warnings there is something fearful inside, accepts his invitation to enter.

Mrs. Worm and Gloomsburg castle are taken over by ghosts.

Describes how medieval castles were built and examines the daily lives of those inhabiting them.

Reveals the how and why behind some of the most fascinating and enduring structures humankind has ever created.

"An engaged couple, British, become the owners of a castle in Ireland and turn it into a hotel. They find their love for one another disturbed, nearly shattered, by the guests they have taken in and in whose lives they become entangled. But more disturbing, more shattering, are the haunting suggestions of an intrinsic evil in the castle, of a presence that is hostile and mysterious"--Publisher's description.