The Book and the Sword (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Society, British and Foreign Bible) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Book and the Sword Among the weapons which have carved out history and shaped the world one stands pre-eminent, as the oldest and most universal of all. Long before men had learned to write, they were busy smelting copper and tin and iron, and forging rude blades our of metal. Fashioned in many shapes and sizes, the sword has two essential parts - a blade and a handle or hilt. Primitive bronze swords, dug up from some ruined temple or tumulus, are sometimes straight-edged and sometimes leaf-shaped. The Lacedæmonian sword was short, for thrusting The Roman sword is found of differing lengths, almost as various as the countries it conquered. Down through centuries of struggle, this "white weapon" developed into forms as diverse as the Scottish claymore and the Albanian cutlass, the rapier of Toledo and the sabre of Japan. But in every corner of the earth fighting men have wielded some kind of sword. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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