Download or read book The Sword of Sheffield written by Paul Rigby and published by . This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sword in Anglo Saxon England written by Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1998 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study concerns the importance of the sword in Anglo-Saxon and Viking society, with reference to surviving swords and literary sources, especially Beowulf.
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Download or read book By the Sword written by Richard Cohen and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2003-08-05 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Like swordplay itself, By the Sword is elegant, accurate, romantic, and full of brio—the definitive study, hugely readable, of man’s most deadly art.”—Simon Winchester With a new Preface by the author 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. Praise for By the Sword “Touché! While scrupulous and informed about its subject, Richard Cohen’s book is about more than swordplay. It reads at times like an alternative social history of the West.”—Sebastian Faulks “In writing By the Sword, [Cohen] has shown that he is as skilled with the pen as he is with the sword.”—The New York Times “Irresistible . . . extraordinary . . . vivid and hugely enjoyable.”—The Economist “A virtual encyclopedia on the subject of sword fighting.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Literate, learned, and, beg pardon, razor-sharp . . . a pleasure for practitioners, and a rewarding entertainment for the armchair swashbuckler.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Download or read book Journal written by Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Story of Sheffield at War 1939 to 1945 written by Margaret Drinkall and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Mark of the Sword written by Thomas Girtin and published by Hutchinson Radius. This book was released on 1975 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notices of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain with Abstracts of the Discourses written by Royal Institution of Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notices of the Proceedings written by Royal Institution of Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notices of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Members of the Royal Institution with Abstracts of the Discourses written by Royal Institution of Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Index and introductory Raw materials Machinery v 2 Manufactures Fine arts Colonies v 3 Foreign states written by Robert Ellis (F.L.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Cecil Sharp written by Maud Karpeles and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Others came before and after him but no person is more strongly associated with the revival of English folk song and dance at the turn of the twentieth-century than Cecil Sharp (1859-1924). He collected about 5000 folk songs and nearly 500 dances. This prodigious achievement is told by someone who perhaps knew him better than anyone else. Maud Karpeles was his assistant for many years and accompanied him on his expeditions to the Southern Appalachian Mountains. This remains the definitive biography of the greatest figure in the English folk song and dance movement.
