Combat Use Of The Double-edged Fighting Knife [Paperback]

Rex Applegate (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 1993

Before arming yourself with a fighting knife, arm yourself with the facts. Colonel Applegate, the world's foremost authority on close combat, wrote this book to instill in readers the skills necessary for contemporary knife fighting. Now you, too, can benefit from the same instructions that generations of military and intelligence personnel have.

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About the Author

Col. Rex Applegate was universally recognized as America's foremost authority on close combat with or without weapons.

Product Details

• Paperback: 48 pages
• Publisher: Paladin Press (July 1, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0873647351
• ISBN-13: 978-0873647359
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #687,183 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This book is actually more of a pamphlet., August 26, 1998

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This review is from: Combat Use Of The Double-edged Fighting Knife (Paperback)

This small booklet provides a very brief glimpse in to a variety of related topics. There is almost no information whatsoever on techgniques or training. This book would only be of value to someone who barely knew what a knife was, let alone how to hold one.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars worlds worst knife fighting guidebook!, August 11, 2003

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[e-mail] (White River Jct., Vt United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Combat Use Of The Double-edged Fighting Knife (Paperback)

One would expect much more from Rex Applegate...the main plot of the book revolves around how Applegate made a new knife that improved upon the Fairbairn-Sykes knife of World War Two fame; Applegate spends most of the book trying to sell his design, the Applegate-Faibairn combat dagger. The book gives a bit of knife fighting history and a few basic do's and dont's.....my advice, don't.......

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Just for whom is real interested in Applegate's work, June 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Combat Use Of The Double-edged Fighting Knife (Paperback)

This booklet it's only a brief collections of hints extrapolated by the books of Col.Applegate. It's a promotion for the Applegate/Fairbarn's combat knife too. No use for the beginner, no use for the expert, just a bit of history.