About This Book
“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 a new Preface by the author Napoleon fenced. So did Shakespeare, Karl Marx, Grace Kelly, and President Truman, who as a school...
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14h 19m
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180 WPM
10h 18m
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250 WPM
7h 22m
fast reader
350 WPM
📖 154,550 words📅 21 days at 30 min/day
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