Part I lays down a positive philosophy for training, covering: Reality first -- Body mechanics -- Weapon design -- Clothing & protection -- Character & motivation / Part II provides illustrated step-by-step training sequences to aid the reader in recreating the fighting styles of some of the most commonly used swords from the late Middle Ages to the end of the 18th Century. Also included, the fight during performance and recording. Each sequence...

"At the high point of a soaring career in the U.S. Army, Lt. Col. Mark Weber was tapped by General David Petraeus to serve in a high profile job within the Afghan Parliament as a military advisor. Within weeks, a routine physical revealed stage IV intestinal cancer in the thirty-eight-year-old father of three ... When [he] realized that he was not going to survive this final tour of combat, he began to write a letter to his boys, so that as they...