The book of swords

• Tác giả: Hank Reinhardt
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-10: 143913281X
• ISBN-10: 1439132828
• ISBN-13: 978-1439132814
• ISBN-13: 978-1439132821
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 623 Military and nautical engineering
• Thông tin xuất bản: Riverdale, N.Y. New York : Baen Pub. Enterprises ; Distributed by Simon & Schuster , 2009
• Mô tả vật lý: x, 235 p. : , ill. ; , 25 cm.
• Bộ sưu tập: Khoa học ứng dụng
• ID: 94016
• Chủ đề: 1. Swords--History; 2. Weapons--History

Includes bibliographical references.

Tóm tắt

Drawing on information from grave excavations, illustrations of battle scenes, and many classical and medieval literary sources, this book discusses how contemporaries showed swords were used and illustrates not only the beautiful form of the sword, but also its beauty of function.