Comprehensive Asian Fightings Arts by Don f Draeger & Robert W. smith this book explains the relationships between fighting arts, assesses their strengths and weaknesses, and presents new material about unknown fighting methods. Comprehensive Asian Fightings Arts by Don f Draeger & Robert W. smith this book explains the relationships between fighting arts, assesses their strengths and weaknesses, and presents new material about unknown fighting methods.

A classic text on the Asian martial arts and the many cultural influences that have spawned a following all over the world. The book was written in 1969 and therefore, most of the history on the arts is pre-mid 20th century.

Further, this book is unquie in that smaller countries which have contributed greatly to these fighting systems have chapters devoted to them. Countries like Burma and India are not overlooked as what so often happens in martial arts books.

Passion and history are intertwined as we see the different forms of combat come alive on the written page and discover the unquie cultures in which they developed. A martial arts must.