Castles of Germany Author:Barney Kirchhoff (Editor) Your Passport to the Past -- With this book in hand, you can leap astride your family supercharger, storm the gates of some of Germany's 20,000 castles and step right back into the days of the Middle Ages. Take along your camera and shoot the massive walls and deep moats which once deterred armies bristling with crossbows and catapults. Walk the... more » mossy courtyards where knights jousted for the hands of fair maidens. Glide through the marble halls where rich and mighty monarchs once held court; where insolent robber barons presided over bacchanalian binges one night and fled in terror with their ill-gotten gains the next. Soak up the atmosphere of imperial palaces that have been restored to show you what life in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance was really like. Even the battered ruins are wonderful places for children to scamper about and call up the ghosts of knights and nobles, sieges and battles. Take "Castles of Germany" with you every time you go for a drive. It's your ticket for adventures in the Old World's purple pageantry and royal romance.« less