Fighting with the Klewang

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(68 68 68 1)>The Dutch klewang is probably one of the most distinctive modern military swords. A short cutting weapon with a sharp curved single-edged blade and a clipped-point the Dutch klewang is a cultural landmark still used ceremonially today.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(68 68 68 1)>With this book we want to introduce you to the basics of Dutch military fencing with the combined klewang and carbine and with the bayonet as taught in the KNIL the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army. For this we have transcribed and translated an original 1937 fencing manual the Dutch </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(68 68 68 1)>Voorschrift voor de Opleiding in het Vechten met de Blanke Wapens</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(68 68 68 1)> (VOVBW) which in English could be called the </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(68 68 68 1)>Regulation for the Training in Fighting with Bladed Weapons</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(68 68 68 1)> (RTFBW).</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(68 68 68 1)>The book you hold includes not only the text but all the images of the original as well as an introduction to the klewang its historical context and its application in modern HEMA training. This volume is suitable for martial artists reenactors and people with a more general interest in Dutch military history.</span></p><p></p>