Dan Seitz’s Reviews > By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions > Status Update

Kudos where it's due, there's an entire chapter about how the sport of fencing let fascists corrupt it, albeit this book is getting more scattershot as it goes along.

The history of swordplay is unsurprisingly also a pretty good history of human pettiness, bullying, and dickishness.