The Age of Castles series is project based and uses a mix of modern photographs, manuscript pictures, artwork and a narrative text in the present tense to examine castles, their architecture, social life and military use.

 

This is volume 4 in Age Of Castles .

This book is aimed at children in primary school.

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 1998 by Hachette Children's Group .

Straun Reid is a graduate in archaeology, and worked for five years on historical sites in the Middle East. He returns to give lectures on the castles of the saracens and the crusaders. Jason Hook works as an editor in educational publishing and has written a large number of history and biography titles for children.