1. The Sword, from Bronze to the Rapier
Fuller: the long groove down a sword blade. Often called a blood groove; it is nothing of the kind. A night walk through a museum hall of swords, case by case, from the first bronze blades of five thousand years ago to the officer's sword of the last cavalry... Inside: a planted myth about the Gauls' bent swords, the patterned steel of the migration age, a fake Ulfberht, a knight's sword weighing as much as a bag of sugar, a smith reading the colours of hot steel, the murder stroke, a Zweihänder taller than a man, and a katana that was never folded a thousand times. Ewart Oakeshott will be…
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