By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions by Richard A. Cohen

By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions

Richard A. 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 Napoleon fenced. So did Shakespeare, Karl Marx, Grace Kelly, and President...

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