Includes index. List of maps and illustrations include: Siege of Acre; Walls of Constantinople; Maltese Islands - Siege of Malta 1565; Basing House 1643; Siege of Vienna 1683; Siege of Lucknow 1857; The Mississippi Valley - Siege of Vicksburg: Grant's march - Vicksburg: the siege lines; Mesopotamia 1915-1916 - Siege of Kut-el-Amara; Spanish Civil war - Siege of the Alcazar 1936 - City of Toledo; Tobruk: the Perimeter - El Agheila to Sidi Barrani - Buq Buq to Alexandra - Tobruk: the reduction of the Salient - Tobruk: the Corridor; Western Russia and the Baltic States - Leningrad: the front lines 1941-1943; Supply Routes to Leningrad; Sieges of Dien Bien Phu 1954 - Khe Sanh 1968.

Introduction -- The mechanics of a siege -- Acre 1189-91 -- Constantinople 1453 -- Malta 1565 -- Basing House 1643-45 -- Vienna 1683 -- Londonderry 1689 -- The Third Siege of Badajoz March-April 1812 -- Lucknow May-November 1857 -- Vicksburg May-July 1863 -- Ladysmith 1899-1900 -- Port Arthur 1904-05 -- Kut-el-Amara 1915-16 -- The Alcazar of Toledo July-September 1936 -- Tobruk April-December 1941 -- Leningrad September 1941-January 1944 -- Dien Bien Phu 13 March-8 May 1954 and Khe Sanh 20 January-1 April 1968 -- Appendix: Notes for visitors to the sites of the sieges.