Knives and swords
Subtitle: a visual history
By: [general editor, Chris McNab]
Contributors: DK Publishing, Inc
Edition: Pbk. ed.
Publisher: DK Pub.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780756695743
Subjects: Swords; Knives; Pictorial works; History
Description: "This comprehensive guide to the world's most important edged weapons features profiles of every significant type, make, and use from the last 5,000 years."--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes index.

"Featuring material from Weapon."

Originally published in hardback in 2010.
Table of contents: title: Ancient blades, 3000 BCE-1000 CE; title: Celtic warrior; title: Hoplite; title: Roman gladiator; title: Early armor; title: Viking raider; title: The Middle Ages, 1000-1500; title: Tournament combat; title: Medieval knight; title: Medieval foot soldier; title: Medieval fight books; title: Shaolin monk; title: Blade vs. bow; title: The age of swordmanship, 1500-1775; title: Dueling; title: Cossack warrior; title: Landsknecht; title: Pikeman; title: Cutting and thrusting; title: Samurai; title: Twilight of the sword, 1775-1900; title: British cavalryman; title: Fencing; title: United States cavalryman; title: Bayonet tactics; title: North American warrior; title: Ottoman warrior; title: Ninja; title: Kenjutsu; title: Zulu warrior; title: Maori warrior; title: The modern world, 1900 onward; title: WWII British commando; title: Gurkha.