By the sword : a history of gladiators, musketeers, samurai, swashbucklers, and Olympic champions /

By the sword : a history of gladiators, musketeers, samurai, swashbucklers, and Olympic champions / Richard Cohen.

Napoleon fenced. So did Shakespeare, Karl Marx, Grace Kelly, and President Truman, who would cross swords with Bess after 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 Mussol...

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Main Author: Cohen, Richard, 1947-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Random House, ©2002.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Fencing > History.
Gladiators.
Escrime > Histoire.
Fencing.
Schermen (sport)
Zwaarden.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • How it all began
  • Enter the master
  • Wild kind of justice
  • France in the age of the musketeers
  • Great swordmakers
  • Perfect thrust
  • Where the sword is the soul
  • Points of honor
  • Pursuit for gentlemen
  • Swashbuckling
  • On Mount Rushmore
  • Spilled blood
  • Scars of glory
  • Fascist sport
  • Woman who saluted Hitler
  • Champions
  • Exodus
  • Burden of gold
  • Honor betrayed
  • Demon barber.

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