Besieged Seven Cities Under Siege Author:J. Bowyer Bell Beseiged is the story of seven great modern sieges: Madrid in the Spanish Civil War; London, Warsaw, Singapore and Stalingrad in World War II; Berlin during the Post World War II Airlift; and Jerusalem under Arab attack from four sides in 1947. Bell, a veteran historian, describes in detail the actual battles involved, clearly demonstrating the ... more »universality of sieges and siegecraft and showing that all these beleaguered places have things in common and obey certain basic laws or principles.« less