Pistols at Dawn

Pistols at Dawn
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Publisher : Little Brown GBR
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ISBN-10 : 0749929960
ISBN-13 : 9780749929961
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Download or read book Pistols at Dawn written by Richard Hopton and published by Little Brown GBR. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the gross and unjustifiable insults you have offered me both as a soldier and a gentleman, I conclude you must be prepared to give me that satisfaction I am entitled to. I am therefore to request that you will name a place and hour of meeting.' So runs a typical challenge to a duel from the early 19th century; formal, polite - and potentially fatal. Duelling is deeply imbedded in our collective consciousness, through numerous films and novels; it evokes a golden past, of gentlemen defending their honour (or that of their wives) in the early morning light of a wooded glade; of frockcoats, rapiers and pistols. From the duel's roots in medieval chivalric tournaments, to the unforgiving code of honour in which death was preferable to shame, this fascinating history recounts - with the aid of numerous vivid eye-witness accounts - all the drama and sheer terror of the duel.


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