By the Sword
A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions
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 WinchesterWith a new Preface by the authorNapoleon fenced. So did Shakespeare, Karl Marx, Grace Kelly, and President Truman, who as a schoolboy would practice fencing with Bess-his future wife- when the two of them returned home from school. Lincoln was a canny dueler. Ignatius Loyola challenged a man to a duel for denying Christ's divinity (and won). Less successful, but no less enthusiastic, was Mussolini, who would tell his wife he was off to get spaghetti, their code to avoid alarming…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-307-43074-8
- EAN: 9780307430748
- Produktnummer: 15737934
- Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 560 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 12'271 KB
- Abbildungen: 40 ILLUSTRATIONS
Über den Autor
Richard Cohen was five times U.K. national saber champion and was selected for the British Olympic team in 1972, 1976, 1980, and 1984. More recently, he has been four times world veteran saber champion. A former director of the Cheltenham Literature Festival, he is the author of Chasing the Sun: The Epic Story of the Star That Gives Us Life. He lives in New York City, where he is working on a new book, The History of Historians.
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