By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions; 10th Anniversary Edition by Richard Cohen

By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions; 10th Anniversary Edition

Richard Cohen

560 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history sports informative medium-paced
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"Like swordplay itself, By the Sword is elegant, accurate, romantic, and full of brio--the definitive study, hugely readable, of man's most deadly art."--Simon Winchester With a new Preface by the author Napoleon fenced. So did Shakespeare, Karl ...

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