Alexander Watson

Praise for The Fortress

The vividly written and well-researched The Fortress is a masterpiece. It deserves to become a classic of military history.

Lawrence James, The Times

If you read one military history book this year, make it Alexander Watson's The Fortress.

Tony Barber, Financial Times Summer Books of 2020

Superb, revelatory, haunting ... he brings the suffocating, cataclysmic siege burningly alive ... It is excellent history, a marvellously readable, though tragic, story of its time and of how the clock can be ...

Julian Evans, Daily Telegraph

The vividly written and well-researched The Fortress is a masterpiece. It deserves to become a classic of military history.

Lawrence James, The Times

If you read one military history book this year, make it Alexander Watson's The Fortress.

Tony Barber, Financial Times Summer Books of 2020

Superb, revelatory, haunting ... he brings the suffocating, cataclysmic siege burningly alive ... It is excellent history, a marvellously readable, though tragic, story of its time and of how the clock can be ...

Julian Evans, Daily Telegraph

The vividly written and well-researched The Fortress is a masterpiece. It deserves to become a classic of military history.

Lawrence James, The Times

If you read one military history book this year, make it Alexander Watson's The Fortress.

Tony Barber, Financial Times Summer Books of 2020

Superb, revelatory, haunting ... he brings the suffocating, cataclysmic siege burningly alive ... It is excellent history, a marvellously readable, though tragic, story of its time and of how the clock can be ...

Julian Evans, Daily Telegraph

Books by Alexander Watson