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Author: John William Thomason
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781557508034
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Fictional account of WW I Battles of Belleau Wood, Soissons, Blanc Mont accurately described by the author who was a combatant.
Author: John Norris
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2016-01-03
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1473883784
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The bayonet is an essential item of a soldier's kit even on today's modern hi-tech battlefield. This work examines the origins of this humble weapon and the 'cult of the bayonet' as espoused by the Russian General Alexander Suvorov who asserted that The bullet misses, the bayonet does not. The first bayonets appeared in France in the early 17th century and soon they were being used by every army in Europe. The author examines the spread of this simple weapon and how it led to fundamental changes being made in battlefield tactics. Over 300 years later, in the age of hi-tech warfare and weapons of mass destruction, the bayonet is still in service with armies around the world. British and US forces in Afghanistan regularly have their bayonets fixed. Fix Bayonets illustrates how tactics changed and the design of the weapon, although fundamentally the same, has evolved over the centuries.Much myth and legend surrounds the subject of bayonet charges and the weapon has become an icon of defiance and the determination to do whatever it takes to win. The author examines evidence for the reality of such actions. How did the ordinary soldier feel to be told 'fix bayonets'? John Norris draws on personal accounts of soldiers using bayonets in combat from the Napoleonic and Crimean Wars, various Colonial campaigns, through the World Wars, Falklands War and into the 21st century in Afghanistan. In so doing he explains the seemingly anachronistic survival of this simple weapon on the modern battlefield.
Author: John William Thomason (Jr.)
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 292
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 298
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: J. Phillip Langellier
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 76
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A history of the United States infantry from the 1860s to 1945 with a focus on its uniforms and equipment.
Author: Stephen Manning
Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
Published: 2020-09-30
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 152677724X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How did technical advances in weaponry alter the battlefield during the reign of Queen Victoria? In 1845, in the first Anglo-Sikh War, the outcome was decided by the bayonet; just over fifty years later, in the second Boer War, the combatants were many miles apart. How did this transformation come about, and what impact did it have on the experience of the soldiers of the period? Stephen Manning, in this meticulously researched and vividly written study, describes the developments in firepower and, using the first-hand accounts of the soldiers, shows how their perception of battle changed. Innovations like the percussion and breech-loading rifle influenced the fighting in the Crimean War of the 1850s and the colonial campaigns of the 1870s and 1880s, in particular in the Anglo-Zulu War and the wars in Egypt and Sudan. The machine gun was used to deadly effect at the Battle of Omdurman in 1898, and equally dramatic advances in artillery took warfare into a new era of tactics and organisation. Stephen Manning’s work provides the reader with an accurate and fascinating insight into a key aspect of nineteenth-century military history.
Author: Alfred Hutton
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-11-19
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780331476408
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from Fixed Bayonets: A Complete System of Fence for the British Magazine Rifle, Explaining the Use of Point, Edges, and Butt, Both in Offence and Defence; Comprising Also a Glossary of English, French, and Italian Terms Common to the Art of Fencing, With a Bibliographical Lis MY recent work, Cold Steel, ' has received a welcome from many of the most important journals, both English and foreign, so unexpectedly warm and generous, that I feel emboldened to lay before the public a companion to it, the matter of which I was, for various reasons, unable to include in the book itself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Alfred Hutton
Publisher: Andesite Press
Published: 2015-08-08
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9781297589003
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