Castles: A Fortified History of the World by Dan Jones Groundswell Speaker 2024 Tracing the intertwined histories of

Tracing the intertwined histories of the abolitionist and women's suffrage movements

Packed with illustrations

and presented with clear

One little girl makes a bid for escape from her sadistic parents’ reign of terror and turns to school for salvation

for the jobs of designing abattoirs and keeping a pathologically clean and tidy house

Castles: A Fortified History of the World by Dan Jones Groundswell Speaker 2024 Tracing the intertwined histories ofDATE OF RELEASE: 8 OCT 2026 From the bestselling author of The Templars and Powers and Thrones, Dan Jones returns with Castles: a gripping history of the world told through over a dozen iconic strongholds. Castles have been built to defend humanity for millennia from the walls of Troy over three thousand years ago and the desert bastion of Krak des Chevaliers in Syria; to Windsor Castle and the Tower of London; to Himeji in Japan and the Maginot Line