- Hardcover: 128 pages
- Publisher: Apple Press (27 Sep 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1850763186
- ISBN-13: 978-1850763185
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,932,579 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A guide to edged weapons analysing the evolution, mythology and historical significance and concentrating on pieces from the last 200 years.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
After waiting a long time for this book I'm decidedly disappointed. Less a collectors guide than a vague and misleading account of major sword types. The writing is clumsy and makes painful attempts at jocularity. There is scant information on the complex and confusing terminology of sword parts, nothing at all on metallurgy. Even given the limited space, the actual factual information provided by this book is very thin.
Some good photographs are the books only redeeming feature.
Some good photographs are the books only redeeming feature.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
In my opinion, it's a good book to buy, if you would like to know something about ancient weapons, without going into boring details.An easy to read, very illustrative book, with weapons and swords from all over the world. It's a good beginners guide.
This was my first book about ancient weapons, and with it, i started my interest in this area.
This was my first book about ancient weapons, and with it, i started my interest in this area.
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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful
At least the pictures are good, but ...
19 Jan 1999
Format:Hardcover
This book is decent, but I question its accuracy. Its best section is on cutlasses and naval weapons. The pictures are good, but woefully mislabled. (E.g..- the lables for a page with five daggers is supposed to read clockwise from the top. In fact, the labels are completely mixed up.) Also, some categories lack even sketches of the weapons (e.g.-the Indian bhuj) and his verbal description makes no sense. Overall the book will fill out a weapons library, but I would recommend Anthony North's "Swords and Hilt Weapons" for starting out.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
A Collectors Guide to Swords, Daggers, and Cutlasses
13 Jan 2002
Format:Hardcover
This book should have been titled a historical analysis of Swords, Daggers, and Cutlasses. It gives a working basic knowledge of edged weapons. However there is no pricing information to be found in this book.
It has many excellant pictures of edged weapons. However it gives a limited perspective of each catagory which leaves the reader salivating for more.
It has many excellant pictures of edged weapons. However it gives a limited perspective of each catagory which leaves the reader salivating for more.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Excellent photos, bad text, marginal reference, bad research
15 Nov 1996
Format:Hardcover
This book abounds with errors...
Page 31..although the picture is from McIans book on the Scottish clans, and is from the 19th century, the sword that the highlander is wielding, is in fact a "claidheamh mor" (claymore). This type of sword was in use dating back as far as about mid-16th-century. The sword that Weland refers to as the classic claymore is no doubt the "claidheamh da laimh" or sword of two hands.(see "Culloden, the Swords and the Sorrows" National Trust for Scotland, 1996)
Page 32..photo caption..on Scottish sword. This actually is a claymore.
Page 33..paragraph 2..total fabrication.
Page 51..paragraph 2..two-handed swords were wielded by troops known as Doppelsoldner who drew double pay, and whose job it was to break pike formations. Hard to do if you don't have the swords. (see
Page 52..photo caption..on two-handed sword,"Katzbalger"? Katzbalgers were one-handed short bladed weapons for close-in work, like finishing off wounded enemy troops. The name means cat-gutter. (see Peterson,"Daggers & Fighting Knives of the Western World" Bonanza Books, 1968, pages 44/45.)
Page 95..photo caption..the German soldier is not, in fact, "kitted" out with any dress daggers. He does, however, have some stick grenades stuck in his belt in typical German military style.
Page 113..Daisho..paragraph 1.."while the second, originally known as the tanto, was the wakizashi." The wakizashi was always the short sword, while the tanto was always the dagger.
There are quite a few more errors, buy this book, it's inexpensive..and you can amuse yourself looking for errors.
Page 31..although the picture is from McIans book on the Scottish clans, and is from the 19th century, the sword that the highlander is wielding, is in fact a "claidheamh mor" (claymore). This type of sword was in use dating back as far as about mid-16th-century. The sword that Weland refers to as the classic claymore is no doubt the "claidheamh da laimh" or sword of two hands.(see "Culloden, the Swords and the Sorrows" National Trust for Scotland, 1996)
Page 32..photo caption..on Scottish sword. This actually is a claymore.
Page 33..paragraph 2..total fabrication.
Page 51..paragraph 2..two-handed swords were wielded by troops known as Doppelsoldner who drew double pay, and whose job it was to break pike formations. Hard to do if you don't have the swords. (see
Page 52..photo caption..on two-handed sword,"Katzbalger"? Katzbalgers were one-handed short bladed weapons for close-in work, like finishing off wounded enemy troops. The name means cat-gutter. (see Peterson,"Daggers & Fighting Knives of the Western World" Bonanza Books, 1968, pages 44/45.)
Page 95..photo caption..the German soldier is not, in fact, "kitted" out with any dress daggers. He does, however, have some stick grenades stuck in his belt in typical German military style.
Page 113..Daisho..paragraph 1.."while the second, originally known as the tanto, was the wakizashi." The wakizashi was always the short sword, while the tanto was always the dagger.
There are quite a few more errors, buy this book, it's inexpensive..and you can amuse yourself looking for errors.
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