Description By LTC (Ret.) Thomas M. Johnson and Thomas T. Wittmann. 363 pages, hardbound. Dust Jacket.  Includes a 12 page color section. This book provides an in-depth study of the many ornate military edged weapons of WWI, as well as civilian and government daggers and swords of the Imperial Era. Also contains a complete chapter on the Imperial Hirschfanger and an intense study of WWI close-combat and trench knives. Volume I was intended to be the introductory reference to a series similar to to the highly successful “Collecting the Edged Weapons of the Third Reich” set by LTC Thomas M. Johnson. ISBN: 0-9600906-0-6 HARDBOUND $40.00 each