Description
Kurt Glemser continues his outstanding efforts with Axis and Foreign daggers with the recent introduction of Volume III of his series. This hardbound, 260 page book, in 6″ x 9 1/2″ format, comes with beautiful color dust cover. For the first time in his series, Glemser addresses the beautiful Italian Naval Cadet dirks, Rumanian edged weapons are detailed from their inception, new information is disclosed on the Austrian Pilots dagger, the Croatian daggers of former Yugoslavia are discussed in detail, the true beauty of the awesome Czech and Slovakians Pilots daggers of the former Czechoslovakia are revealed. If this were not enough, there is an extensive chapter on the extremely well-made Swiss Army daggers, a chapter on Polish daggers, and finally the art of Damascus is discussed with Egon Dinger, the son of the famous Damascus smith family active during Imperial and Third Reich Germany. Many photographs are illustrated in full color. A tremendous effort here, and a must for every serious edged weapons collection library. Hardcover. Out of print.