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“It is not intended that this book should be read from cover to cover ….” The author modestly sees his work only as providing “sufficient preliminary background information on the castles the reader proposes to visit”. Further information, he stresses, is in most cases to be found in guide books available on site. In common with most Welsh people, I am an enthusiast for castles, châteaux, zámky and the like worldwide. Everywhere but at home! There the lowering relics of Norman and Edwardian power evoke only bitter humiliation. To his great credit, Lindsay Evans is aware of this ambivalence and...
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