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Socket Bayonets
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Author : Graham Priest
language : en
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2016-02-15
Socket Bayonets written by Graham Priest and has been published by Amberley Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-15 with History categories.
Explores the fascinating world of socket bayonets.
Socket Bayonets Of The Great Powers
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Author : Robert W. Shuey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999-01-01
Socket Bayonets Of The Great Powers written by Robert W. Shuey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-01 with Bayonets categories.
Socket Bayones of the Great Powers is a heavily-illustrated collector's guide to socket or angular bayonets. It highlights variations & features of these bayonets to aid the collector with fast, easy identification. Countries covered in the book are the United States, Austria, Belgium, Britain (& the East India Co.), Denmark, France, Germany & Prussia, Italy, Holland, Russia, Spain, Sweden & Switzerland. Toys, reproductions & fakes also are covered, as are socket bayonets as non-weapons. There are 133 photographs & 78 illustrations in the book. Contact Excalibur Publications, PO Box 35369, Tucson, AZ 85740-5369. Voice: (520) 575-9057. Fax: (520) 575-9068.
American Socket Bayonets 1717 1873
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Author : Donald Blake Webster
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
American Socket Bayonets 1717 1873 written by Donald Blake Webster and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Bayonets categories.
American Socket Bayonets And Scabbards
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Author : Robert M. Reilly
language : en
Publisher: Andrew Mowbray Pub
Release Date : 1990-01-01
American Socket Bayonets And Scabbards written by Robert M. Reilly and has been published by Andrew Mowbray Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-01-01 with Reference categories.
The Socket Bayonet In The British Army 1687 1783
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Author : Erik Goldstein
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
The Socket Bayonet In The British Army 1687 1783 written by Erik Goldstein and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Bayonets categories.
American Socket Bayonets And Scabbards
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Author : Robert Reilly
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-08-13
American Socket Bayonets And Scabbards written by Robert Reilly and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-13 with categories.
One of the most useful books about bayonets is finally back in print! By the late Robert M. Reilly, a comprehensive illustrated guide to U.S. socket bayonets from the Colonial era to the post-Civil War time period. This standard reference work allows for easy identification by collectors, historians and curators. Enthusiasts everywhere will be glad to see it available once more, this time in a handy softcover format. The detailed research behind this work, combined with the technical accuracy of its countless illustrative drawings, will prove invaluable to the novice as well as the advanced student of both bayonets and the scabbards that sheathed them.100+ black and white illustrations. Softcover reprint, third edition. 8.5" x 11". 221 pages.
American Socket Bayonets 1717 1873
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Author : Donald B. Webster
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
American Socket Bayonets 1717 1873 written by Donald B. Webster and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Bayonets categories.
Fix Bayonets
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Author : John Norris
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2016-01-03
Fix Bayonets written by John Norris and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-03 with History categories.
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.
The Bayonet
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Author : Bill Harriman
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-04-15
The Bayonet written by Bill Harriman and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-15 with History categories.
Although muskets delivered devastating projectiles at comparatively long ranges, their slow rate of fire left the soldier very vulnerable while reloading, and early muskets were useless for close-quarter fighting. Consequently, European infantry regiments of the 17th century were composed of both musketeers and pikemen, who protected the musketeers while loading but also formed the shock component for close-quarter combat. The development of the flintlock musket produced a much less cumbersome and faster-firing firearm. When a short knife was stuck into its muzzle, every soldier could be armed with a missile weapon as well as one that could be used for close combat. The only disadvantage was that the musket could not be loaded or fired while the plug bayonet was in place. The socket bayonet solved this problem and the musket/bayonet combination became the universal infantry weapon from c.1700 to c.1870. The advent of shorter rifled firearms saw the attachment of short swords to rifle barrels. Their longer blades still gave the infantryman the 'reach' that contemporaries believed he needed to fend off cavalry attacks. The perfection of the small-bore magazine rifle in the 1890s saw the bayonet lose its tactical importance, becoming smaller and more knife-like, a trend that continued in the world wars. When assault rifles predominated from the 1950s onwards, the bayonet became a weapon of last resort. Its potential usefulness continued to be recognized, but its blade was often combined with an item with some additional function, most notably a wire-cutter. Ultimately, for all its fearsome reputation as a visceral, close-quarter fighting weapon, the bayonet's greatest impact was actually as a psychological weapon. Featuring full-colour artwork as well as archive and close-up photographs, this is the absorbing story of the complementary weapon to every soldier's firearm from the army of Louis XIV to modern-day forces in all global theatres of conflict.
The Spirit Of The Pike
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Author : Graham Priest
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003-01-01
The Spirit Of The Pike written by Graham Priest and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-01 with Bayonets categories.