castles

Jack and his younger sister Annie use the magic tree house to travel back to the Middle Ages, where they explore a castle and are helped by a mysterious knight.

Explains how and why the idea of building castles started and developed.

Describes what life was like for a servant living in a medieval castle, discussing work, etiquette, attacks, and other related topics.

This book tells of the knights, peasants, lords, ladies, and slaves who made up European society in the Middle Ages.

Young Sophie is turned into an old lady by a witch and moves into Howl's moving castle as a cleaning lady, but as war rages on, Sophie finds that what she really needs to fear is Howl's bathroom.

Fourteen-year-old William, having befriended a former professor and World War II resistance fighter who is living in an abandoned castle on a hill above the town of Bonville in French Normandy in 1959, takes refuge in the castle, along with the rest of the town's teenagers, and leads a revolt against a local criminal cartel and the greed of their own families and local authorities.

French teens Willi and Louise, studying in Paris, join the second generation of the French Resistance, and find themselves using their newly learned skills of judo and aircraft flying to defend Dragon Castle, and save world leaders John F. Kennedy and Charles de Gaulle from murderous conspiracies during the Algerian Civil War.

A history and discussion of those fortified private dwellings, known as castles, which were built in Europe only during the Middle Ages, with particular attention to those of Britain.

History of forts and castles from prehistoric times to the 19th century, with see-through pages allowing the reader to look inside a Mycenaean citadel, a Medieval castle, a Japanese stronghold, and a U.S. Army frontier fort.