Behind each sword sat a general officer of the Army in full-dress uniform. In front of the table, nervously eyeing the eleven swords, sat an undistinguished, heavy-set man named Joseph Silverman ...

Christopher George uncovered a late 19th-century Civil War presentation sword in the attic of his historic family home, ...

Tomesuke Umeki, an officer in the Imperial Japanese Army, carried the sword with him when he left Takaharu around 1941 for a Japanese-controlled territory during the Pacific War. He traveled from ...