Bridge Club Lending Library Defense Books

• How the Experts Do It: Improving your Bridge, by Terence Reese and David Bird. A collection of short topics followed by quizzes, increasing in difficulty. Mostly declarer play, from the finesse to the squeeze, with some defensive sections.

• How to Defend a Bridge Hand, by William S. Root. A comprehensive guide to defense, with chapter end quizzes plus a final cumulative quiz. Complete with a section on conventional leads and signals.

• Kantar for the Defense, by Edwin B. Kantar. One hundred defensive problems with solutions and explanations.