ASIN: B00W0SVXLA
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Pages: 56
*Includes pictures*Includes footnotes, online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“Had I just 10,000 Cossacks, I would have conquered the whole world.” – Napoleon Bonaparte"Save us Lord, from Cossacks." - Sir Wilson, reporting the prayers of conquered Germans (1813)The modern myth of the Cossack presents striking images of a stern warrior mounted on horseback, with a long woolen coat, papakha (distinctive tall fur cap ) and fur-lined cloak, with bandoliers holding large-caliber bullets crisscrossing his chest. The warrior is armed with a mixture of rifle, lance, daggers and pistols, but he always has his signature weapons: the shashka (a single-edged, guard-less, slightly curved saber originally designed by the Circassian foes) and the nagyka (short, thick whip of braided leather with a heavy weight worked into the end originally designed for ...
