Gentlemen's Blood: A History of Dueling from Swords at Dawn to Pistols at Dusk by Barbara Holland

Gentlemen's Blood: A History of Dueling from Swords at Dawn to Pistols at Dusk

Barbara Holland

304 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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Barbara Holland guides us lightheartedly through the touchy subject of honor - and how to defend it - in this compulsively readable history of dueling's first thousand years.The medieval justice of trial by combat evolved into the private duel by ...

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