Typescript of 'Crusader and Saracen Castles…’
Reference code
KIN/02
Title
Typescript of 'Crusader and Saracen Castles…’
Date
1940s
Level of description
Item
Extent and format
(ff.7) + ff.109 + 14 additional plans.
Quarto.
Half leather binding, brown.
Quarto.
Half leather binding, brown.
Scope and content
'Crusader and Saracen Castles visited in the Near East in the years 1942, 1943, 1944'. Typescript, with plans. ff. 38-59 were revised for publication as 'The taking of Le Krak des Chevaliers in 1271', Antiquity, 23 (1949), 83-92. The additional plans, figs.1-14, are the plans for 'The Defence of the Citadel of Damascus', Archaeologia, 94 (1951), 57-96.
Creator
King, David James Cathcart (1913-1989), military historian
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/919/2