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• Annals of a Fortress, by Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, trans. by Benjamin Bucknall (Gutenberg ebook)

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• A Treatise on Field Fortification, Containing Instructions on the Methods of Laying Out, Constructing, Defending, and Attacking Intrenchments; With the General Outlines Also of the Arrangement, the Attack And Defence of Permanent Fortifications (third edition, revised and enlarged; New York: J. Wiley, 1856), by D. H. Mahan (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Treatise on Field Fortification, Containing Instructions on the Methods of Laying Out, Constructing, Defending, and Attacking Intrenchments; With the General Outlines Also of the Arrangement, the Attack And Defence of Permanent Fortifications (third edition, revised and enlarged; New York: J. Wiley, 1860), by D. H. Mahan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Treatise on Field Fortification, Containing Instructions on the Methods of Laying Out, Constructing, Defending, and Attacking Intrenchments; With the General Outlines Also of the Arrangement, the Attack And Defence of Permanent Fortifications (fourth edition; Richmond, VA: West and Johnston, 1862), by D. H. Mahan
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• The warfare of to-day (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1918), by Paul Azan, Julian Lowell Coolidge, and Lowell institute lectures (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trench fighting (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917), by F. Haws Elliot (page images at HathiTrust)
• The attack in trench warfare (D. Van Nostrand company, 1917), by André Charles Victor Laffargue (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elements of trench warfare (E. N. Appleton, 1917), by William H. Waldron (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes for infantry officers on trench warfare. (Govt. print. off., 1917), by Great Britain War Office General Staff and D.C. United States. Army war college. Washington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai général de fortification et d'attaque et défense des places, dans lequel ces deux sciences sont expliquées et mises l'une par l'autre à la portée de tout le monde ... (G. Decker, 1797), by Henri Jean Baptiste de Bousmard and A.-M. Augoyat (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Festung in der heutigen Kriegführung (E. S. Mittler und Sohn, 1897), by Johannes Schroeter (page images at HathiTrust)
• De la défense des places fortes, ouvrage composé par ordre de Sa Majesté impériale et royale pour l'instruction des élèves du Corps du génie (Mme ve Courcier, 1812), by Lazare Carnot (page images at HathiTrust)
• The war of positions (Harvard university press, 1917), by Paul Jean Louis Azan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de Polybe, (Chez Pierre Gandouin ... Julien-Michel Gandouin ... Pierre-François Giffart ... Nicolas-Pierre Armand ..., 1727), by Polybius, Jean Charles de Folard, Jean-Charles Folard, and Vincent Thuillier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Défense des états par les positions fortifiées. (J. Corréard Jeune, éditeur ..., 1836), by Charles Gabriel d'Arsac Ternay and M. Mazé (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai général de fortification, et d'attaque et défense des places : dans lequel ces deux Sciences sont expliquées et mises l'une par l'autre à la portée de tout le monde ... (Chez Magimel, 1814), by Henri Jean Baptiste Bousmard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Safety at the front for officers, N. C.'s and men of all arms. (George U. Harvey publishing company, inc., 1918), by pseud Dixhuit and Llewellyn Orestes Thayer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The attac and defence of fortified places : In three parts. Containing, I. Preparations for, and operations of an attac. II. Preparations for, and defence of every part of a fortification, with all necessaries for a good defence. III. A treatise of mines, explaining the manner of making and loading them, with tables of the proper charges and dimensions, deduced from a new theory. For the use of the Royal Academy of Artillery at Woolwich. (J. Millan, 1757), by John Muller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tactical operations for field officers : being up-to-date schemes worked out on training-grounds at home stations (K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1903), by Wilkinson J. Shaw (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tactical and strategical studies : corps and army (The General Service Schools Press, 1922), by U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémorial pour l'attaque des places : ouvrage posthume de Cormontaingne ... (Chez Anselin ..., 1835), by Louis de Cormontaingne and A.-M. Augoyat (page images at HathiTrust)
• La fortification perpendiculaire : ou essai sur plusieurs manieres de fortifier la ligne droite, le triangle, le guarré, & tous les polygônes, de quelqu' étendue qu'en soint les côtés, en donant à leur défense une direction perpendiculaire: oú l'on trouve des méthodes d'améliorer les places déjà construites, & de le rendre beaucoup plus fortes: on y trouve aussi de redoutes, des forts & des retranchemens de campagne, d'une construction nouvelle: ouvrage enrichi d'un grand nombre de planches exécutées par les plus habiles graveurs (Impr. de Philippe-Denys Pierres, 1776), by Marc-René Montalembert (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on field fortification : and other subjects connected with the duties of the field engineer (Thomas Bosworth, 1850), by J. S. Macaulay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité de l'attaque des places (Chez Charles-Antoine Jombert ..., 1762), by Guillaume Le Blond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité de la def́ense des places : avec un dictionnaire des termes de l'artillerie, de la fortification, de l'attaque & de la défense des places (C.A. Jombert, 1762), by Guillaume Le Blond, Charles Antoine Jombert, and Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (page images at HathiTrust)
• Outlines of a course of lectures on fortification, military tactics, and perspective : with the attack and defence of fortresses. (Spottiswoodes and Shaw, 1852), by Sandhurst Royal Military College (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recueil de mémories, expériences, observations et procédés généraux propes à perfectionner la fortification et les constructions militaires. (De l'imprimerie de Goujon fils ..., 1803), by France Ministry of War, France. Comité technique du génie, France. Comité consultatif du génie, France. Comité du génie, and France. Comité des fortifications (page images at HathiTrust)
• Attack of fortified places : including siege-works, mining, and demolitions : prepared for the use of the cadets of the United States military academy (J. Wiley & Sons, 1903), by James Mercur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Summary of the course of permanent fortification and of the attack and defence of permanent works, for the use of the cadets of the U.S. Military academy. (West & Johnston, 1863), by D. H. Mahan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Instruction allemande sur le service du pionnier dans la guerre de siège (1913) ; traduction du texte allemand faite à la S.T.G. (H. Charles-Lavauzelle, 1916), by Prussia. Kriegsministerium (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Instruction sur l'emploi de l'appareil d'assaut, système "Mattei", pour la destruction des réseaux de fils de fer ... ([Paris?, 1917), by France Ministry of War (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Handy war guide for my company (The Cortina academy of languages, 1918), by André Godefroy Lionel Hanguillart and Louis Joseph Alexandre Mercier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The war of positions (Harvard university press, 1917), by Paul Jean Louis Azan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Company training in the attack (George Banta publishing company, 1917), by James Alfred Moss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elements of trench warfare ([National Capital Press, Inc.], 1917), by William H. Waldron (page images at HathiTrust)
• The attack in trench warfare (The United States infantry association, 1916), by André Charles Victor Laffargue (page images at HathiTrust)
• Field fortification (Wiley and Putnam, 1846), by D. H. Mahan, John Francis Eugene Prud'homme, and Jacob Edmund Blake (page images at HathiTrust)
• Technical aspects of biological defense. (Dept. of Defense], Depts. of the Army and the Air Force, 1971), by United States. Department of the Army (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité complet de fortification : ouvrage utile aux jeunes militaires et mis à la portée de tout le monde / par M. Noizet-de-Saint-Paul, Maréchal-de-camp ... (Chez Barrois l'aîné, libraire ..., 1818), by Gaspard Noizet-Saint-Paul (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unsere festungen. Entwicklung des festungswesens in Deutschland seit einführung der gezogenen geschütze bis zur neuesten zeit (Vossische buchhandung, 1912), by Herman Frobenius (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mémorial pour la fortification permanente et passagère. (Anselin et Pochard, 1824), by Louis de Cormontaingne, Jean de Lafitte-Clavé, and M. Fourcroy de Ramecourt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité, théorique et pratique de fortification passagère et de la défense des postes de guerre, avec un résumé des petites opérations de la guerre, à l'usage des officiers et des sous-officiers... (Librairie Militaire de J. Dumaine, 1850), by Ernest de Neuchèze (page images at HathiTrust)
• De l'attaque et de la defense des places: (P. de Hondt, 1737), by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité de fortification d'attaque et de défense des places (Ch. Tanera, 1872), by of Byzantium Philo and Albert de Rochas d'Aiglun (page images at HathiTrust)
• Company training in the attack, and the defense, including the field orders of enlisted men (George Banta Pub. Co., 1917), by James Alfred Moss (page images at HathiTrust)
• De l'attaque et de la defense des places (Chez Pierre de Hondt, 1737), by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, Pieter de Hondt, and Guillaume de La Fon de Boisguérin Deshoulières (page images at HathiTrust)
• The war of positions (Harvard University Press, 1917), by Paul Azan and Joseph E. Kuhn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Military engineering : (Part II) attack and defence of fortresses (H.M.S.O., 1910), by Great Britain War Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Parisiana (Provost, 1871), by Cameron Stuart Macdowall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Platoon instruction. (For sale by E.C. McKay, 1918), by T. H. Gillman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grundriss des Festungskrieges : für Offiziere aller Waffen (Fr. Aug. Eupel, 1901), by W. Stavenhagen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tactique de la guerre de siège. (Polleunis et Ceuterick, 1898), by V. Deguise (page images at HathiTrust)
• La défense des états et la fortification à la fin du XIXe siècle (E. Guyot, 1895), by Alexis Henri Brialmont (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trench warfare, the effects of spade-power in modern battles. (United Newspapers, 1915), by Edmund Dane (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A treatise on the attack and defence of fortified places : including an investigation of the advantages which in point of strength, superior polygons have over those of an inferior order : and an explanation of the differences in the methods of carrying on the attack, according to the nature of the polygon : with an illustration of the powerful defence ... (Printed for T. Egerton ..., 1824), by C. Malortie de Martemont (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mahan's permanent fortifications. (John Wiley & Sons, 1894), by D. H. Mahan and James Mercur (page images at HathiTrust)
• First national symposium of the center for high-energy-rate forming : lectures given at the Martin Company, Denver Division, Denver, Colo., Feb. 8, 1966. (Columbus, Ohio : Defense Metals Information Center, Battelle Memorial Institute, 1966., 1966), by Battelle Memorial Institute. Defense Metals Information Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Special operations : (tentative). (Command and General Staff School Press, 1937), by Command and General Staff School (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Field fortification (Wiley & Long, 1836), by D. H. Mahan and John Francis Eugene Prud'homme (page images at HathiTrust)
• German experiences in Russia (Washington, D.C. : Center of Military History, 1982., 1988), by Center of Military History (page images at HathiTrust)
• Offerta d'un nuovo modo di difendere qual si voglia fortezza per debole che sia reputata (Appresso gli heredi d'Antonio Blado ..., 1578), by approximately 1540-approximately 1584 Vignola (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rules, chiefly deduced from experiment, for conducting the practical operations of a siege, originally composed for the use of the Royal engineer establishment at Chatham (J. Weale, 1841), by Charles William Pasley and England. School of Military Engineering Chatham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Safety in trench warfare for yourself & your men : for officers and non-commissioned officers of all arms (Gale & Polden, 1918), by pseud Dixhuit (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Trench Warfare: A Manual for Officers and Men, by Joseph S. Smith (Gutenberg ebook)
• Elements of Trench Warfare, by William H. Waldron (Gutenberg ebook)
• Notes on Training for Rifle Fire in Trench Warfare, by Army War College (U.S.) (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Attack in Trench Warfare: Impressions and Reflections of a Company Commander, by André Laffargue (Gutenberg ebook)
• Attack of Fortified Places. Including Siege-works, Mining, and Demolitions.: Prepared for the use of the Cadets of the United States Military Academy, by James Mercur (Gutenberg ebook)
• Training for the Trenches: A Practical Handbook Based upon Personal Experience During the First Two Years of the War in France, by Leslie Vickers (Gutenberg ebook)
• Handy War Guide for My Company: Handy Company Commander's Guide, by André Godefroy Lionel Hanguillart, ed. by Louis J. A. Mercier (Gutenberg ebook)

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