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

318 pages first pub 2003 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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The medieval justice of trial by combat evolved into the private duel by sword and pistol, with thousands of honorable men-and not-so-honorable women-giving lives and limbs to wipe out an insult or prove a point. The duel was essential to private,...

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