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Spanning the period from the great migrations to the Renaissance, this book presents a selection from a very large body of photographs and research and gives a full and detailed record of the swords of that turbulent time.
sword from books.google.com
Reprint. Originally published: New Hope, Pennsylvania: Robert Halter/The River House, 1954. First edition was published with the catalog, American silver mounted swords, 1700-1815, added as an appendix.
sword from books.google.com
This is the first book ever to span the complete history of American swords, sword makers and sword dealers from Colonial times to the present.
sword from books.google.com
Sword and Scimitar chronicles the decisive battles that arose from this ages-old Islamic jihad, beginning with the first major Islamic attack on Christian land in 636, through the Muslim occupation of nearly three-quarters of Christendom ...
sword from books.google.com
An unprecedented study of the body mechanics of the sword, written by a world-renowned expert in Historical European Martial Arts. Full color with detailed illustrations.
sword from books.google.com
Snatched by a dragon at the end of book one, Edmund and Elspeth awake to find themselves soaring over the frozen wastes of the Snowlands, hundreds of miles from home.
sword from books.google.com
The text covers combat with the longsword (hand-and-a-half sword), dusack (a one-handed practice weapon comparable to a sabre), and rapier.
sword from books.google.com
But as historian Peter den Hertog notes in this book, most of Hitler’s contemporaries experienced the same culture and environment and didn’t turn into rabid Jew-haters, let alone perpetrators of genocide.
sword from books.google.com
This book is a must have treasury of "how to" for every martial arts enthusiast. Its purpose and intent focus on the "way of the sword" used throughout history by the Samurai.
sword from books.google.com
Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch trilogy has become one of the new classics of science fiction.