Sword in Hand
Author | : Ewart Oakeshott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780971437906 |
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Author | : Ewart Oakeshott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780971437906 |
Author | : Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem |
Publisher | : Annick Press |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2011-02-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1554514703 |
As the murmur of prayers fills the icy room, mother and baby seem doomed. When the newborn finally struggles into the world, the Count of Flanders flees in a rage. The child is not the expected male heir — but a girl. Growing up under the disapproving eye of her heartless father, the strong-willed Marguerite instinctively learns to survive in the fierce and violent male world of the Middle Ages, with its pagan rituals and bloody fights to the death. When her father demands that she wed a man she detests, the young countess uses all her cunning to stop the marriage. The only thing she cannot conquer is the plague, which marches across the land killing thousands, including the man she loves. Based on a real character, this colorful story is told with sharp humor and is filled with dramatic intensity. The final scene in the book, in which Marguerite and her father engage in a savage sword fight, will remain engrained in readers’ memories.
Author | : J. J. Fischer |
Publisher | : Ambassador International |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2021-02-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1649600690 |
“One is an opportunity. Two is a threat. Three is an invasion.” For hundreds of years, strange things have been washing up on the shores of Darcentaria. But when a young foreign woman named El is found unconscious on the beach amidst the burning wreckage of a strange metal craft, the villagers of Odessa are immediately suspicious—is she an agent of the Dalriadan Empire, their cruel oppressors for as long as they can remember? Or does she come from the Outside, the vast and legendary lands beyond their borders from which no man or woman alive has ever returned? Torsten Eiselher, a talented young swordsman, has spent the last nine years of his life wrongfully imprisoned by his uncle, the Empire’s ruler. Betrayed and deceived at every turn, Torsten has survived by keeping a firm grip on his sword—and by staying well away from anything to do with the Outside. But when his young sister is murdered, Torsten finds himself irrevocably drawn to El despite her Outsider heritage—and he begins to question everything he has been told about her world. Intrigued by the existence of a powerful and dangerously advanced world within his reach, the Empire’s ruler, Jurien Arminius, launches a hunt for El and the two Outsiders that arrived with her—the ones who could help him win his war against Torsten and the rebellion that threatens to topple his Empire. Suddenly, Torsten is forced to choose between defeating his long-term enemy or saving the woman he has come to love . . .
Author | : Bryan Polivka |
Publisher | : Harvest House Publishers |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0736919570 |
As the "Trophy Chase" again sets sail, trouble returns in the form of pirate Scat Wilkins and a new Hezzan with diabolical designs on Nearing Vast. Adding salt to the wound, Panna is imprisoned by Prince Mather. Will Packer be able to rescue his ship, his bride, and the kingdom?
Author | : Robert A. Trias |
Publisher | : Tuttle Publishing |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2011-12-20 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1462902294 |
Karate means "empty–hand," but the one who masters this book will never be empty–handed. In fact, he will be a master of the ultimate in self–defense, for here are the martial arts fundamentals, the basic katas and techniques as taught by Robert Trias, holder of the eighth degree Black Belt. These movements and techniques are vividly brought to life by more than six hundred striking illustrations, many of them picturing Master Trias and his aides and pupils. Along with the imposing illustrations are important charts not usually found in martial arts books of this kind. The charts show the fatal and disabling points of the body and the nerve centers–for karate can be a deadly game, and those who practice it must know well the significance of the term "killer karate." For student and instructor alike, this important manual will open new dimensions, new horizons, and in the give–and–take of life will teach the properly oriented how to give much more than he takes. It will give him a new interest, a new zest for living, with the confidence that he can move mountains. Above all, it will teach him that to master others, he must first learn to master himself.
Author | : Carol Reardon |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2012-05-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807882577 |
When the Civil War began, Northern soldiers and civilians alike sought a framework to help make sense of the chaos that confronted them. Many turned first to the classic European military texts from the Napoleonic era, especially Antoine Henri Jomini's Summary of the Art of War. As Carol Reardon shows, Jomini's work was only one voice in what ultimately became a lively and contentious national discourse about how the North should conduct war at a time when warfare itself was rapidly changing. She argues that the absence of a strong intellectual foundation for the conduct of war at its start--or, indeed, any consensus on the need for such a foundation--ultimately contributed to the length and cost of the conflict. Reardon examines the great profusion of new or newly translated military texts of the Civil War years, intended to fill that intellectual void, and draws as well on the views of the soldiers and civilians who turned to them in the search for a winning strategy. In examining how debates over principles of military thought entered into the question of qualifications of officers entrusted to command the armies of Northern citizen soldiers, she explores the limitations of nineteenth-century military thought in dealing with the human elements of combat.
Author | : Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem |
Publisher | : Allen & Unwin |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2010-04-01 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 174269005X |
Marguerite's father is desperate for a son. Instead he's stuck with a feisty, stubborn, red-headed daughter who refuses to behave like a lady. This exciting medieval romance-adventure story is based on historical fact about a 14-year-old heiress to Flanders called Marguerite Van Male.
Author | : Ben Boos |
Publisher | : Candlewick Press |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 2008-09-09 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0763631485 |
Describes the details of design and history of swords.
Author | : Anthony Farrar-Hockley |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2007-11-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1473819229 |
An account of the 1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment, at the Battle of Imjin River during the Korean War and the survivors’ captivity in a POW camp. In April 1951, at the height of the Korean War, Chinese troops advanced south of the 38th parallel towards a strategic crossing-point of the Imjin River on the invasion route to the South Korean capital of Seoul. The stand of the 1st Battalion, the Gloucestershire Regiment, against the overwhelming numbers of invading troops has since passed into British military history. In The Edge of the Sword General, Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley, then Adjutant of the Glosters, has painted a vivid and accurate picture of the battle as seen by the officers and soldiers caught up in the middle of it. The book does not, however, end there. Like the majority of those who survived, the author became a prisoner-of-war, and the book continues with a remarkable account of his experiences in and out of Chinese prison camps. This book is not an attempt at a personal hero-story, and it is certainly not a piece of political propaganda. It is, above all, an amazing story of human fortitude and high adventure.
Author | : Mark Sperring |
Publisher | : Andersen Press USA |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2014-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1467744352 |
In a land filled with fire and smoke and endless fighting, where knights fight dragons, there lives a little knight who wants to be big like the others, and fight like the others, and have a sword like the others. But his mother won’t let him. Instead of a sword, she gives him a sunflower, which, as it turns out, can be mightier than a sword.