It takes the average reader 5 hours and 28 minutes to read The Fortress in the Age of Vauban and Frederick the Great 1660-1789 by Christopher Duffy
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The later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have been acclaimed as the classic period of artillery fortification. This was an era when fortresses and fortress systems shaped the calculations of strategists and statesmen, and often dictated the course of campaigns. The age was one of almost constant conflict and this book, originally published in 1985, explores the influence of the fortress in the dynastic wars of Bourbon, Habsburg and Hohenzollern, the contest for influence in the Baltic, the last crusades of the West against the Turks, and in the peculiar conditions of colonial...
The Fortress in the Age of Vauban and Frederick the Great 1660-1789 by Christopher Duffy is 318 pages long, and a total of 82,044 words.
This makes it 107% the length of the average book. It also has 100% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 28 minutes to read The Fortress in the Age of Vauban and Frederick the Great 1660-1789 aloud.
The Fortress in the Age of Vauban and Frederick the Great 1660-1789 is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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