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