Battle often takes place in a landscape that offers natural features helpful to the tactics of attack, defence - or even retreat. Rivers, the most impossible of natural barriers to overcome, concentrate military attention on their crossing points; major battles have been fought through the ages to capture control of strategically important bridges. This book looks at such actions, from Roman days through to World War II, showing how the physical restraints at bridging points have spawned the most ingenious military solutions.
- ISBN10 1854094491
- ISBN13 9781854094490
- Publish Date 18 March 1999
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 May 2001
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Weidenfeld Military
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English