By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions | 
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A non-fiction book on my to read list for quite some time. I started it, but I‘d rather read fiction.
Very informational about how the sword came about, it‘s creation, and application. ⚔️
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En guard. Lunge. Parry. Touch. Point.
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Then you‘ll enjoy this non-fiction book about how the sword 🗡 becomes a weapon of choice-from gladiators to pirates!
BTW, the score to Gladiator by Hans Zimmer is amazing! 👂🏻 🎶
Bought these awesome letter openers from http://www.by-the-sword.com/
A pirate cutlass, with sheath (not pictured), for me.
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Excalibur, with sheath (not pictured), for my King Arthur obsessed friend, who loaned me this book, By the Sword!
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Killed to photo challenges with one photo!
Been reading these non-fiction books and I put them by my candelabras from the library's used book store! #SHPL
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Reading By the Sword and Dumas' The Three Musketeers was mentioned; d'Artagnan was modeled after a real person!
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"Three" is a slow TBR for a book club, where we discuss so many chapters at a time. "Sword" will be finished this month; its a borrowed book! I'm reading this book as research for my historical pirate romance novel I'm writing. #readjanuary
This book, By the Sword, will be finished in December, after NaNoWriMo! #currentlyreading #photoadaynov16
The first nonfictional book I can recall reading since getting out of college! At least I won't be tested on it! Lol
pickI have always been fascinated by swordsmanship and picked this up on whim. A very good history of swordsmanship with an emphasis on European techniques, culminating in modern sport fencing, a sport which bears little similarity to its historical origins, written by an author who has fenced for years
