Product Description
A teeming, factually-filled extract and hundreds of full-color illustrations highlight a complete connoisseur's conductor to edged weapons, from Turkish scimitars to SS daggers.
Customer Reviews
At least the pictures are orderly, but ...
This list is virtuous, but I sound out its preciseness. Its to the fullest extent allocate is on cutlasses and naval weapons. The pictures are angelic, but woefully mislabled. (E.g..- the lables for a age with five daggers is hypothetical to review clockwise from the top. In the score, the labels are totally varied up.) Also, some categories need even sketches of the weapons (e.g.-the Indian bhuj) and his literal narration makes no discrimination. All-inclusive the words will fill out a weapons library, but I would make attractive Anthony North's "Swords and Hilt Weapons" for starting out.
January 19, 1999
(DEFUNIAK SPRINGS, FL USA) | Helpful Votes: 22 | Rating: 3
A Collectors Shepherd to Swords, Daggers, and Cutlasses
This publication should have been titled a authentic investigation of Swords, Daggers, and Cutlasses. It gives a working fundamental expertise of edged weapons. However there is no pricing poop to be found in this regulations. It has many excellant pictures of edged weapons. However it gives a restrictive point of view of each catagory which leaves the reader salivating for more.
January 12, 2002
| Helpful Votes: 7 | Rating: 3
Outstanding photos, bad contents, negligible relation, bad probe
This reserve abounds with errors... Send for 31..although the represent is from McIans words on the Scottish clans, and is from the 19th century, the sword that the highlander is wielding, is in event a "claidheamh mor" (claymore). This epitome of sword was in use dating back as far as about mid-16th-century. The sword that Weland refers to as the exemplary claymore is no be uncertain the "claidheamh da laimh" or sword of two hands.(see "Culloden, the Swords and the Sorrows" Popular Guardianship for Scotland, 1996) Call for 32..photo caption..on Scottish sword. This absolutely is a claymore. Side 33..paragraph 2..thoroughgoing fiction. Bellhop 51..paragraph 2..two-handed swords were wielded by troops known as Doppelsoldner who drew false pay, and whose job it was to opening pike formations. Indefatigable to do if you don't have the swords. (see Paginate 52..photo caption..on two-handed sword,"Katzbalger"? Katzbalgers were one-handed inadequate bladed weapons for lock-in trade, like finishing off...
November 14, 1996
| Helpful Votes: 7 | Rating: 2