By the Sword
A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions
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Narrated by:
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Richard Cohen
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Written by:
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Richard Cohen
About this listen
Napoleon fenced. So did Shakespeare, Karl Marx, Grace Kelly, and President Truman, who as a schoolboy would practice fencing with Bess - his future wife - when the two of them returned home from 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 Mussolini, who would tell his wife he was "off to get spaghetti," their code to avoid alarming the children.
By the Sword is an epic history of sword fighting - a science, an art, and, for many, a religion that began at the dawn of civilization in ancient Egypt and has been an obsession for mankind ever since. With wit and insight, Richard Cohen gives us an engrossing history of the world via the sword.
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- Max Wilcocks
- 2024-08-29
The entire experience was simply captivating and awe-inspiring.
The only concern I had was that with some devices the audio was so deep that it was challenging to comprehend. However, it is more of a device-specific issue rather than a reflection on the reading itself.
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