The Book of the Sword
Author : Sir Richard Francis Burton
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 34,82 MB
Release : 1884
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
Author : Sir Richard Francis Burton
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 34,82 MB
Release : 1884
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
Author : Peter den Hertog
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 15,51 MB
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1526772396
This investigation into the Nazi leader’s mindset is “an inherently fascinating study . . . a work of meticulously presented and seminal scholarship”(Midwest Book Review). Adolf Hitler’s virulent anti-Semitism is often attributed to external cultural and environmental factors. But as historian Peter den Hertog notes in this book, most of Hitler’s contemporaries experienced the same culture and environment and didn’t turn into rabid Jew-haters, let alone perpetrators of genocide. In this study, the author investigates what we do know about the roots of the German leader’s anti-Semitism. He also takes the significant step of mapping out what we do not know in detail, opening pathways to further research. Focusing not only on history but on psychology, forensic psychiatry, and related fields, he reveals how Hitler was a man with highly paranoid traits, and clarifies the causes behind this paranoia while explaining its connection to his anti-Semitism. The author also explores, and answers, whether the Führer gave one specific instruction ordering the elimination of Europe’s Jews, and, if so, when this took place. Peter den Hertog is able to provide an all-encompassing explanation for Hitler’s anti-Semitism by combining insights from many different disciplines—and makes clearer how Hitler’s own particular brand of anti-Semitism could lead the way to the Holocaust.
Author : Lisa Deutscher
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 20,7 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1783274271
A multidisciplinary overview of current research into the enduringly fascinating martial artefact which is the sword.
Author : Harvey J. S. Withers
Publisher : Southwater Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,84 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Swords
ISBN : 9781844768394
Tracing the fascinating history of swords, spears and lances through to the 21st century, this book includes information on Japanese, Chinese, African and Indian swords as well as covering in detail the development of the weapon in Western Europe.
Author : Alan Williams
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 10,20 MB
Release : 2012-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9004229337
The sword was the most important of weapons, the symbol of the warrior, not to mention the badge of a officer and a gentleman. Much has been written about the artistic and historical significance of the sword, but outside specialised publications, relatively little about its metallurgy, and that often confined to a particular group. This book aims to tell the story of the making of iron and steel swords from the first Celtic examples through the Middle Ages to the Early Modern period. The results of the microscopic examination of over a hundred swords by the author and other archaeometallurgists are given and explained in terms of the materials available in Europe.
Author : Ewart Oakeshott
Publisher :
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 24,37 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780851155661
An extensive and thorough study of the origins, development and usage of the glamorous two-edged knightly sword of the European middle ages, with a complete typology. Spanning the period from the great migrations to the Renaissance, this book presents a selection from a very large body of photographs and research and gives a full and detailed record of the swords of that turbulent time.
Author : Ernest Gellner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,49 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0226287025
Elucidates and argues for the author's concept of human history from the past to the present.
Author : Ewart Oakeshott
Publisher :
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 24,67 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780971437906
Author : Bruce LaFontaine
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 34,98 MB
Release : 1998-01-13
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0486401391
Forty-four carefully researched, ready-to-color drawings depict swords and their bearers from prehistory through the 17th century. Detailed captions enhance this rich pictorial history for colorists, students of weaponry, and armchair adventurers.
Author : James Carroll
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 22,32 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780618219087
A rare book that combines searing passion with a subject that has affected all of our lives. "Chicago Tribune" Novelist, cultural critic, and former priest James Carroll marries history with memoir as he maps the two-thousand-year course of the Church s battle against Judaism and faces the crisis of faith it has sparked in his own life. Fascinating, brave, and sometimes infuriating ("Time"), this dark history is more than a chronicle of religion. It is the central tragedy of Western civilization, its fault lines reaching deep into our culture to create a deeply felt work ("San Francisco Chronicle") as Carroll wrangles with centuries of strife and tragedy to reach a courageous and affecting reckoning with difficult truths."