Richard Cohen is a world renowned author and fencer. His books include Making History, Chasing the Sun, How to Write Like Tolstoy and By the Sword, which is the subject of this discussion

By the Sword is a fascinating insight into fencing, the players, the sword makers and political shapers. This book is impeccably researched, taking the reader on a journey around the world with evolutions of the sword and swordplay, interlaced with his own personal fencing history.

This is a live Zoom session where Richard will share some of his favourite insights when writing this book. There will be a Q&A at the end.

About Richard Cohen:
A former publishing director of two leading London publishing houses, Cohen has edited books that have won the Pulitzer, Booker, and Whitbread/Costa prizes, while twenty-one have been no.1 bestsellers. Among the authors he has worked with are Madeleine Albright, David Boies, John Keegan, Richard Holmes, Hilary Spurling, Vanessa Redgrave, Harold Evans, Studs Terkel, John le Carré, Anthony Burgess, Jeffrey Archer, Jean Auel, Kingsley Amis, and Sebastian Faulks.

For more than thirty-five years, Cohen has lectured on numerous subjects around the globe, most recently for New York Times Journeys, from the Galápagos Islands to the First World War battlefields of France and Belgium. He was programme director of the Cheltenham Festival of Literature for two years, and during his tenure it became the largest book festival in the world. For seven years he was a visiting professor in creative writing at the University of Kingston-upon-Thames in London, and for a semester a visiting scholar at Magdalene College, Cambridge. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Five times U.K. national saber champion, Cohen was selected for the British Olympic fencing team in 1972, 1976, 1980, and 1984 and has been four times world veteran saber champion. He has written for most British quality newspapers and, since moving to New York in 1999, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times Book Review.

By the Sword, by Richard Cohen is available on Audible and Amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sword-Gladiators-Musketeers-Swashbucklers-Olympians/dp/1847396704/ref=sr_1_1?crid=7073DQY3PZVS&keywords=by+the+sword+richard+cohen&qid=1673523578&sprefix=%2Caps%2C114&sr=8-1