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Author | : Christer Jorgensen |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2006-07-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780312348199 |
Fighting Techniques of the Early Modern World describes the combat techniques of soldiers in Europe and North America from 1500 to 1763. The book explores the unique tactics required to win battles in an era where the musket increasingly came to dominate the battlefield, and demonstrates how little has changed in some respects of the art of war.
Author | : Matthew Bennett |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780312348205 |
Describes the fighting techniques of soldiers in Europe and the Near East in an age before the widespread use of gunpowder.
Author | : Lu Shengli |
Publisher | : Blue Snake Books |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2006-02-09 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9781583941454 |
The combat techniques of Tai Ji, Ba Gua, and Xing Yi were forbidden during China's Cultural Revolution, but the teachings of grandmaster Wang Pei Shing have survived. This comprehensive guide, written by one of his students, selects core movements from each practice and gives the student powerful tools to recognize the unique strategies and skills, and to develop a deeper understanding, of each style. It contains complete instructions for a 16-posture form to gain mastery of combat techniques. The book helps practitioners achieve a new level of practice, where deeply ingrained skills are brought forth in a more fluid, intuitive, and fast-paced fashion.
Author | : William R. Short |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781594162176 |
A History of the Arms, Armor, and Individual Fighting Strategies of Medieval Europe's Most Feared Warriors A source of enduring fascination, the Vikings are the most famous raiders of medieval Europe. Despite the exciting and compelling descriptions in the Icelandic sagas and other contemporary accounts that have fueled this interest, we know comparatively little about Viking age arms and armor as compared to weapons from other historical periods. We know even less about how the weapons were used. While the sagas provide few specific combat details, the stories are invaluable. They were written by authors familiar with the use of weapons for an audience that, likewise, knew how to use them. Critically, the sagas describe how these weapons were wielded not by kings or gods, but by ordinary men, as part of their everyday lives. Viking Weapons and Combat Techniques provides an introduction to the arms and armor of the people who lived in Northern Europe during the Viking age, roughly the years 793-1066. Using a variety of available sources, including medieval martial arts treatises, and copiously illustrated with images of historical artifacts, battle sites, and demonstrations of modern replicas of Viking weapons, the author and his colleagues at Hurstwic (a Viking-age living history organization) and at the Higgins Armory Sword Guild have reconstructed the combat techniques of the Viking age and what is known about the defensive and offensive weapons of the time in general. Throughout, the author corrects some popular misconceptions about Viking warriors and warfare, such as the belief that their combat techniques were crude and blunt rather than sophisticated. In addition, the book provides an overview of Viking history and culture, focusing on the importance of weapons to the society as well as the Vikings' lasting impact on Europe through their expeditions of trade and exploration.
Author | : Paul Kirchner |
Publisher | : Paladin Press |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9781581607420 |
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 1838 it was banned in several states—a ban that did little to stanch the flow of blood. Bowie's story is well known, but what of the other cutters and stabbers of his day? Gunfighters have long been celebrated, but those who fought with the bowie knife have been largely ignored—until now. Unearthing accounts from memoirs, court records, regional histories, and newspaper archives, Paul Kirchner, author of the Paladin bestsellers The Deadliest Men and More of the Deadliest Men Who Ever Lived , presents their stories for the first time in Bowie Knife Fights, Fighters, and Fighting Techniques. Kirchner identifies and profiles the four greatest bowie knife fighters of history, as well as numerous other wielders of the blade. He details the weapon's use in the Texas War of Independence, the Mormon exodus, the Mexican War, the slave system, the Gold Rush, Bleeding Kansas, the Civil War, the Lincoln assassination, the Indian Wars, and the Western frontier. The book describes bowie knife fighting tricks and techniques and provides numerous accounts of knife-against-knife and knife-against-gun encounters. Its final chapter surveys the continued use of the bowie and other fighting knives in modern warfare.
Author | : Craig Mutton (Clan MacAvram) |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 87 |
Release | : 2006-05 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1411698665 |
The Combat Secrets of History's Toughest Warriors Are Hidden In Plain Sight . . . on the pages of U.S. Military Close Combat Manuals.There was a time when the American military had reduced hand-to-hand com-bat to a science. A science associated with legendary names like Fairbairn, Sykes, O'Neill, Applegate and Biddle. Out of their accumulated experiences emerged a system of techniques that were:1)Brutally Effective2)Simpler Than Tying Your Shoes3)Quickly Learned & Not Soon Forgotten4)Within the Capabilities of the Average PersonThe author of "12 U.S. Military Combat Techniques That Could Save Your Life" has combed many hundreds of pages to find these techniques and makes them available to you in a form more easily understood than ever before. Resolve to get tough by ordering your copy today at the introductory price of $17.98 -- 40% off.
Author | : Simon Anglim |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
An illustrated history of warfare in the ancient world includes detailed examinations of armies, equipment, and strategies before gunpowder, in a volume that offers insight into the successes of the Assyrian and Roman forces.
Author | : Darren Levine |
Publisher | : Ulysses Press |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2009-12 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 1569756678 |
As the official defensive tactics system of Israeli police, military, and elite special operations units, krav maga has proven its effectiveness from front lines to back streets. "Black Belt Krav Maga" teaches and illustrates the discipline's most lethal fighting and self-defense moves in book format.
Author | : Simon Anglim |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780312309329 |
"Provides a detailed, highly-illustrated guide to warfare in the classical ancient world"--Jacket.
Author | : Andrew Curtiss |
Publisher | : Author House |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2008-04-22 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1463465009 |
“Death smiles upon us all. All we can do is Smile back” (Russel Crowe Gladiator) Survival is the objective of this book. When faced against an armed adversary we value our life above all else. The sole purpose of existence turns to survival, when life hangs in the balance. The life that we hold so precious becomes fragile when we find ourselves staring death in the face. Often times we don’t recognize that it could only take seconds to have our lives bled out from underneath us. It is only in the times of peril, and we realize that our life is hanging by a thread that Survival becomes so important. Make no mistake this book is about SURVIVAL. Every copy sold donates 1 dollar to Save a vet in order to help veterans afflicted with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)