By the Sword

Gladiators, Musketeers, Duelists, Samurai, Swashbucklers and Points of Honour

Richard Cohen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

400 Seiten

2003
Pan Books (Verlag)
978-0-330-48229-5 (ISBN)

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The secret history of the fiercely beautiful art of fencing

Though fencing is seen as a graceful and noble sport, it is not without its seamy sides. By the Sword traces the darkness behind the mask, from the sport's early brutal days to the more civilised, yet no less dangerous, days of duelling and then to the present day. Abraham Lincoln, Karl Marx and Mussolini were all involved in duels, Hitler gave fencing a special emphasis in his regime and the best fencer the world has ever seen was an anti-Soviet spy. Cohen delves behind the headlines exposing lurid tales of cheating and blackmail, of murder and strange love affairs, the honour and dishonour of swordmanship and its cultural side from The Three Musketeers to Star Trek. Above all the book portrays the character of fencing - at once graceful, balletic, rough, technically beautiful and fiercely competitive.

Richard Cohen is a renowned publisher, journalist and author - the editor behind Jeffrey Archer's early novels. He has written for the Sunday Times, Guardian, Daily Telegraph and is a regular broadcaster on the BBC. Five times National Sabre Champion, he was selected for the British Olympic team in 1972, 1974, 1980 and 1984. He lives in New York

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.10.2003
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	130 x 197 mm
Gewicht	324 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Kampfsport / Selbstverteidigung
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
ISBN-10	0-330-48229-7 / 0330482297
ISBN-13	978-0-330-48229-5 / 9780330482295
Zustand	Neuware