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Got this nifty little book from one of the editors of the 'Sieges' series. Good, casual read. Anyone know it?

No, tell me more about this series...

No, it's incorrect to call the battle a siege anyway, the book is clearly crap!

A besieged city is not one that gets hundreds f thousands of reinforcements and steady resupply. Hell the Russians had a bridge across the Volga during the early stages, until it was ordered to be blown up.

Sea Skimmer wrote:No, it's incorrect to call the battle a siege anyway, the book is clearly crap!

A besieged city is not one that gets hundreds f thousands of reinforcements and steady resupply. Hell the Russians had a bridge across the Volga during the early stages, until it was ordered to be blown up.

A siege doesn't have to be an utterly complete encirclement of a city, fort, etc.

I think it mentions that it wasn't really a 'siege', but rather a long bloody, stalemated struggle for control of a city.

There's a few other books, five or six, but the only two I can remember off the top of my head are 'Constantinople' and 'Alamo'

StarshipTitanic wrote:
A siege doesn't have to be an utterly complete encirclement of a city, fort, etc.

No it doesn’t. However when the other side has many miles of river to resupply across and is often growing in strength as a result of those efforts it's not a siege.

Whatever. It's just a nitpick based on the name of the series.