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L'architecture militaire moderne, ou Fortification
No prior complete English translation of this text has been found.
Extensive searches of scholarly catalogs, Open Library, and Google Books yielded no records of an English translation for Matthias Dögen's 1648 French work 'L'Architecture Militaire Moderne'. While the work is a significant 17th-century treatise on fortification, it appears to remain untranslated into English.
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Matthias Dögen strips away the vanity of military theorists to reveal the cold, geometric reality of the seventeenth-century battlefield. Readers will discover how to turn earth and water into impenetrable barriers against the fury of gunpowder.