# By the Sword

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- Book: [By the Sword](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-cohen/by-the-sword) ([By the Sword.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-cohen/by-the-sword.md))
- Authors: [Richard Cohen](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-cohen)
- Publisher: Modern Library
- ISBN: 978-08-1296-966-5
- Pages: 560
- Published: 2003-08-05
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

“Like swordplay itself, By the Sword is elegant, accurate, romantic, and full of brio—the definitive study, hugely readable, of man’s most deadly art.”—Simon Winchester With...