Not ONE Balisong?!? Really??

It was okay.

I only got this book, because I recently got into the hobby of balisong flipping.
This book didn't have a single balisong.
It even had a chapter on knives from the Philippines, and not a single mention of balis.

I'm not a big proponent of violence and so this book had quite a bit of dark history.

3.0/5

Only thing this is missing are women's daggers, which I'm sure existed. This is a book of two parts, daggers in the first part with swords and spears in the second. I'm still not certain where shortswords and long daggers divide but otherwise this is a comprehensive index to blades of all sort from many countries with comprehensive illustration but a little too much "it appears" to give it the full 5 stars, that and the missing women.