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  • The Tower of Swallows (The Witcher Book 4)

    • ASIN: B01C3LHS1C
    • Manufacturer: Orbit

    Soon to be a major Netflix original series!The world is at war and the prophesied savior is nowhere to be found. The Witcher, Geralt of Rivia, races to find her -- but time is short, and an army is on his heels in the fourth book of the NYT bestselling series that inspired the blockbuster video games. The world has fallen into war. Ciri, the child ... [Read More]

  • Sword Fighting: An Introduction to the Single-Handed Sword and Buckler

    • UPC: 000764348264
    • ASIN: 0764348264
    • ISBN: 9780764348266
    • Manufacturer: Schiffer

    In the sequel to the first volume, which introduced the long sword, Herbert Schmidt explains single-handed sword fighting techniques with a buckler, or small shield. “Single-handed sword” here refers to the sword wielded in one hand, as used throughout almost the entire Middle Ages. This book analyzes historical evidence, taken mainly from the ... [Read More]

  • The Book of Five Rings

    • ASIN: 1935785974
    • ISBN: 1935785974
    • Brand: Miyamoto Musashi
    • Manufacturer: Bottom of the Hill Publishing

    Miyamoto Musashi's Go Rin no Sho or the book of five rings, is considered a classic treatise on military strategy, much like Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Chanakya's Arthashastra. The five "books" refer to the idea that there are different elements of battle, just as there are different physical elements in life, as described by Buddhism, Shinto, an... [Read More]

  • The Fighting Sword: Illustrated Techniques and Concepts

    • ASIN: 1581606605
    • ISBN: 1581606605
    • Manufacturer: Paladin Press

    The second in Dwight McLemore's Fighting Weapons series, The Fighting Sword began as a way for the author to chronicle his experience of commissioning a custom-made sword and then designing a training program to use with it. As he developed the sword-fighting concepts, techniques and combat scenarios for use with his sword, however, he realized tha... [Read More]

  • Medieval Combat: A Fifteenth-Century Illustrated Manual of Swordfighting and Close-Quarter Combat

    • ASIN: 1853674184
    • ISBN: 1853674184
    • Brand: Brand: Greenhill Books
    • Manufacturer: Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal

    268 illustrations 6 x 9 This brilliant and attractive new book makes one of the most influential fencing manuals of the middle ages available in English for the first time. The authentic fifteenth-century techniques of master-of-arms Hans Talhoffer are illustrated in detail, presenting not only a unique historic record but also a visual guide for m... [Read More]

  • The 10 Best Knife Fighting Techniques: Deadly Knife Fighting Techniques for the Street (10 Best Series) (Volume 11)

    • ASIN: 1941845525
    • ISBN: 1941845525
    • Manufacturer: Contemporary Fighting Arts, LLC

    Learn What It Takes to Survive a Knife FightThe 10 Best Knife Fighting Techniques: Deadly Knife Fighting Techniques for the Street is a concise guide designed to teach some of the most practical and effective knife fighting techniques for self-defense. Unlike other knife fighting books, The 10 Best Knife Fighting Techniques is devoid of impractical... [Read More]

  • Dragon's Trail (The Outworlders Book 1)

    • ASIN: B01JF0KWZ8
    • Manufacturer: Oxblood Books

    "I didn't come here to sell my soul. I came here to buy it back."Once dubbed "The Deadliest Man Alive," Jarrod Torrealday is a former Olympic saber hopeful and medieval weapons expert banned from competition for killing another fencer in a duel. Despondent, volatile, yet still one of the greatest living swordsmen, he now works for third-rate fantas... [Read More]

  • The Art of the Japanese Sword: The Craft of Swordmaking and its Appreciation

    • UPC: 884440847070
    • ASIN: 4805312408
    • ISBN: 4805312408
    • Brand: Tuttle Publishing
    • Manufacturer: Tuttle Publishing

    In The Art of the Japanese Sword, master swordsmith Yoshindo Yoshihara offers a detailed look at the entire process of Japanese sword making, including the finishing and appreciation of Japanese blades.Japanese sword art stands out in many ways: functionality as a weapon, sophisticated metallurgy and metalsmithing, the shape of the blade itself—a... [Read More]

  • The Samurai Sword: Spirit * Strategy * Techniques: [DVD INCLUDED]

    • ASIN: 0804837511
    • ISBN: 0804837511
    • Brand: Yoshida, Kohshyu
    • Manufacturer: Tuttle Publishing

    The Samurai Sword is the essential illustrated guide to the Japanese way of the sword.Japan's famous samurai warriors were more than just soldiers — they were adherents to a strict code of honor who respected the deeper, spiritual meaning of the way of the sword. To the samurai, battle was sacred. This indispensable guide to theory and practice r... [Read More]

  • Rise of Humanity: Book 1 - Arc One, The Mortal

    • ASIN: B07D637DS8
    • Manufacturer: Gravity Tales

    Zhong Yue was just an ordinary boy, a mere outer disciple of the Swords Gate that shielded humanity, who came from the smallest and weakest of all the human tribes. While all his contemporaries were embracing the various resources supplied by their tribes, he had to leave at the first light of dawn each day and search for the medicinal herbs necess... [Read More]

  • The Art of Sword Combat: A 1568 German Treatise on Swordmanship

    • ASIN: 1473876753
    • ISBN: 1473876753
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Frontline Books

    Following the success of Jeffrey L. Forgeng’s translation of Joachim Meyer’s The Art of Sword Combat the author was alerted to an earlier recension of the work which was discovered in Lund University Library in Sweden. The manuscript, produced in Strassburg around 1568, is illustrated with thirty watercolor images and seven ink diagrams. The te... [Read More]

  • Bowie Knife Fights, Fighters and Fighting Techniques

    • ASIN: 1581607423
    • ISBN: 1581607423
    • Brand: Brand: Paladin Press
    • Manufacturer: Paladin Press

    In 1827, James Bowie carved his way into American history at the Sandbar Fight, and soon every fighting man of the South and West had to have a knife like his. The bowie knife could cut like a razor, chop like a cleaver, and stab like a sword, and many considered it deadlier than a pistol at close range. So great was the dread it inspired that by 1... [Read More]

  • Outlaw: A Dark Fantasy Novel (On the Bones of Gods Book 2)

    • ASIN: B0194UEDHM
    • Manufacturer: 47North

    The battle against the gods continues in the heart-pounding sequel to Enemy.Snow never planned on having a partner. Never planned on picking fights with a god. And certainly never expected to start a revolution.But that was before the goddess Tal’Shik returned, looking for revenge on the republic that rejected her. Snow’s search for allies aga... [Read More]

  • The Fighting Tomahawk: An Illustrated Guide to Using the Tomahawk and Long Knife as Weapons

    • UPC: 884882203168
    • ASIN: 1581604416
    • ISBN: 1581604416
    • Brand: Twisted X
    • Size: 11 M US
    • Manufacturer: Paladin Press

    The low-tech, high-impact tomahawk has been carried in every American war, including Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq. Here the author traces the origins of the tomahawk and uses his dynamic drawings to show how it can be utilized singly or with the long knife in both offensive and defensive encounters. Includes fighting scenarios, throwing lessons an... [Read More]

  • Forza The Samurai Sword Workout: Kick Butt and Get Buff with High-Intensity Sword Fighting Moves

    • ASIN: 1569754780
    • ISBN: 1569754780
    • Brand: Montagnani, Ilaria/ Morris, Bill (PHT)
    • Manufacturer: Ulysses Press

    “Meet the Lara Croft of Manhattan”--The New York PostSTRIKE, THRUST, CUT . . . YOUR WAY INTO GREAT SHAPEFeel the power and exhilaration of a Samurai sword workout with Forza, the full body exercise program based on Japanese sword fighting techniques. Build muscle and burn fat with this fantastic cardio workout that strings together controlled s... [Read More]

  • The Liar the Cheat and the Thief: Deception and the Art of Sword Play

    • ASIN: 1505407672
    • ISBN: 1505407672
    • Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

    You don't fight bodies you fight minds. In this slender volume, Maija Soderholm of Sonny Umpad's Visayan Style Corto Kadena and Larga Mano system presents the details of one of the most important and least understood aspects of personal combat. How to control the opponent's mind. The Liar, The Cheat, and The Thief explores the drills and the mindse... [Read More]

  • Medieval Swordsmanship: Illustrated Methods And Techniques

    • ASIN: 1581600046
    • ISBN: 1581600046
    • Manufacturer: Paladin Press

    From the author of Renaissance Swordsmanship comes the most comprehensive and historically accurate view ever of the lost fighting arts of Medieval knights, warriors and men-at-arms. Based on years of extensive training and research in the use of European swords, it contains highly effective fighting techniques for the sword, sword & shield, long-s... [Read More]

  • The Tactical Knife: A Comprehensive Guide to Designs, Techniques, and Uses

    • ASIN: B00J75IS76
    • Manufacturer: Skyhorse

    Tactical knives are the fast-growing field of American bladesmithing. Now, in one groundbreaking volume, tactical knife expert James Morgan Ayres shares more than four decades of real-world experience with purpose-designed knives. You’ll find it all in The Tactical Knife: fixed blades, folders, defensive uses, survival uses, product reviews—in s... [Read More]

  • Old Sword Play: Techniques of the Great Masters (Dover Military History, Weapons, Armor)

    • UPC: 800759419517
    • ASIN: 0486419517
    • ISBN: 0486419517
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

    Anyone interested in historical weapons or the art of fencing will want to own this classic study of swordsmanship in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Written in the late nineteenth century by a British officer, antiquarian, and noted scholar of the sword, the work was intended to provide military men with essential training in... [Read More]

  • Kings of Ruin (Kingdoms of Sand Book 1)

    • ASIN: B073FVJ35S
    • Manufacturer: Moonclipse

    Game of Thrones meets SpartacusIn an ancient world of sand and splendor, an empire awakens.Aelar, a mighty nation, spreads its tentacles. Its oared galleys storm the seas, and the waters run red with blood. Its legionaries swarm desert ruins, smiting barbarian hordes. Its crosses line the roadsides, displaying the dying flesh of heroes.The Aelarian... [Read More]

  • Real sword fighting techniques NOT SEEN in the movies

    Which sword is best in a one-on-one duel?..... Historical fencing

    Learn Sword Fighting 1: Basic Attack