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Originally published in hardcover and in slightly different form by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., in 2002, and subsequently in trade paperback by Modern Library, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., in 2008.
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Cohen, Richard
By the sword: a history of gladiators, musketeers, samurai, swashbucklers, and Olympic champions / Richard Cohen.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-43074-8
1. Fencing—History. I. Title.
U860 .C58 2002
796.86′09—dc21 2002021309
Cover design: Misa Erder
Cover art: Le maître d’armes (detail), Tancrède Bastet (1858–1942), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Grenoble/Photos12.com/ARJ
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