ANNOUNCEMENT:   F O R T E C A
 
    The illustrated Polish magazine FORTECA, is available overseas
through subscriptions.  We are looking for articles on fortifications
from Ancient History through the 20th Century.
 
FORTECA is a quarterly publication consisting of approximately 64 pages.
Most pages have one or more drawings, photos or plans in B&W.
Those on the front and back covers are in color.  At the end of
each article is a summary in English.  Each illustration
caption is in Polish  and English.

Beginning in 1999 one article, for overseas subscribers  only,
will be entirely in English.
 
     1.    To subscribe to the magazine for those of you living in the
            United States, send $30 to:
             J.E. Kaufmann
             PO Box 680-484
             San Antonio, Texas
             78268

For this reduction in price from the regular overseas subscription
rate you will receive your four issues in two mailings (two issues
will be mailed together every 6 months).

Other foriegn subscribers need to contact:
Jaroslaw Chorzepa by e-mail at forteca@btsnet.com.pl
or
Jaroslaw Chorzepa
ul. Sadowa 6/66
06-300 Przasnysz
Poland
 
Price for 40 DM or 25 USD or equivalent
 
2. For those interested in contributing articles written in
English send your proposals by regular mail to the above address, or
by e-mail to:
joek@txdirect.net
 
In your proposals, in addition to a brief description, include the
following information: proposed length of article and the number and
type of illustrations to be used.

The following table of contents from  Issue 1/98 is an example of
what will be found in an issue of FORTECA:
    1. An Outline of the Glogow Fortifications
    2. The Chocim Fortress during the Russo-Turkish War 1768-1774
    3. Russian Fortress Brest Litovsk - Fort V
    4. Armoured Turret for 8 cm. Cannon M 94 for Austro-Hungarian
        Fortifications
    5. Major-General Waclaw I. Zhigalkovsky, Military Engineer (one of
        the main engineers of the Vladivostok Fortress)
    6. The Fortified Group "Berghohe" (Hurka) - (Czech fortified
        group of the Bene's Line)
    7. German Patent Protection in Poland of Anti-aircaft Shelters
    8. Czechoslovakian Fortifications on the Former Hungarian Border
   (reprint from 1939)
 
We presently seek articles on ancient and medieval fortifications,
 but will consider articles covering any fortifications of any era.