Book Series: By the Sword

By the Sword

By Greg Costikyan

Nijon, a young barbarian and son of the god Mongoose, performs heroic deeds--such as killing a lioness barehanded, outsmarting a dragon, rescuing a princess, and outwitting a king.

As underground Islamic extremists force religious conversions to create a region free of Christian and Jewish influence, a U.S. reporter must expose the radical intolerants to ensure the safety of those who refuse to convert to Allah and ...

By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions

By Richard Cohen

The most memorably dastardly of these was Basil Rathbone, otherwise known as Levasseur in Captain Blood, Guy of Guisborne in The Adventures of Robin Hood, and Captain Esteban Pasquale in The Mark of Zorro. Rathbone was a good club ...

By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions; 10th anniversary edition

By Richard Cohen

Barbara Tuchman, in a revealing essay on “Generalship," quotes the Maréchal de Saxe (himself drawing on Aristotle): "Courage is the first of all qualities." Without it other qualities are of little value since they cannot be used.

By the Sword

By Mercedes Lackey

Granddaughter of the sorceress Kethry, daughter of a noble house, Kerowyn had been forced to run the family keep since her mother's untimely death.

By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions

By Richard A. Cohen, Richard Cohen

Napoleon fenced. So did Shakespeare, Karl Marx, Grace Kelly, and President Truman, who would cross swords with Bess after school. Lincoln was a canny dueler. Ignatius Loyola challenged a man...

By the Sword

By Sanami Matoh

Asagi is a demon hunter who begins a quest looking for the Moegi, a magical sword that will help him defeat his enemies more effectively.

By the Sword

By Mercedes Lackey

For use in schools and libraries only. When an attack on her home leaves her father slain, her brother wounded, and her brother's fiancee kidnapped, Kerowyn prepares to face the enemy who has shattered her family's dreams.

By the Sword

By Mercedes Lackey

Granddaughter of a sorceress and daughter of a noble house, Kerowyn had been forced to run the family keep since her mother's untimely death.

By the Sword: A Repairman Jack Novel

By F. Paul Wilson

Of course, when things don't go as planned, Jack must improvise (and he hates to improvise). By the Sword takes F. Paul Wilson's trademark breakneck pacing and interweaving storylines to a new level.

By the Sword: Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai Warriors, Swashbucklers and Olympians

By Richard Cohen

Packed with anecdote, superbly written and built on a solid foundation of historical research, this is a tribute to a deadly but beautiful skill, the mastery of which for centuries defined a man.

By the Sword: A Novel

By Christian Williams, Timothy Boggs

By the Sword: A Novel

By the Sword

By Timothy Boggs

Marauders have stolen the magical blade of Zeus, and Hercules must recover it.