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Author : Graham Priest
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445649926
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Socket Bayonets written by Graham Priest and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the fascinating world of socket bayonets.
Author : Robert M. Reilly
Publisher : Andrew Mowbray Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780917218453
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (184 download)
Download or read book American Socket Bayonets and Scabbards written by Robert M. Reilly and published by Andrew Mowbray Pub. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Diagram Group
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312039509
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (395 download)
Download or read book Weapons written by Diagram Group and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1990 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive guide covers the entire history of weapons, from the earliest, most primitive instruments up to remarkable advances in modern defense and warfare, including:Riot-control devicesElectrified nightsticksInfantry weaponsMultiple-launch rocketsFiber-optic misslesWire-guided torpedoes"Stealth" technology
Author : Donald Blake Webster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780919316034
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)
Download or read book American Socket Bayonets, 1717-1873 written by Donald Blake Webster and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Norris
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473883784
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Fix Bayonets! written by John Norris and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-01-03 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Diagram Group
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312368326
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (683 download)
Download or read book The New Weapons of the World Encyclopedia written by Diagram Group and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-08-21 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide covers the entire history of weapons, from the earliest, most primitive instruments up to remarkable advances in modern defense and warfare. Comprehensively illustrated, with diagrams, charts, photographs, and much more.
Author : Bill Harriman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472845374
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)
Download or read book The Bayonet written by Bill Harriman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Bill Harriman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 147284534X
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)
Download or read book The Bayonet written by Bill Harriman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Robert Reilly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781500833169
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (331 download)
Download or read book American Socket Bayonets and Scabbards written by Robert Reilly and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-13 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Donald B. Webster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (148 download)
Download or read book American Socket Bayonets, 1717-1873 written by Donald B. Webster and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert W. Shuey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781880677148
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (771 download)
Download or read book Socket Bayonets of the Great Powers written by Robert W. Shuey and published by . This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1465411585
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (654 download)
Download or read book Military History written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's weaponry is showcased inside this spectacular visual guide. From the spears and swords of ancient times to the guns and grenades of modern warfare, 5,000 years of weaponry are explored and explained in unprecedented detail. Military History profiles key arms and armaments and conveys technologies and tactics across hundreds of pages of dramatic photography and accessible text. Find out how war is waged between battleships at sea, tanks on the battlefield, and fighter planes in the skies. Climb siege towers, drive chariots, enter medieval fortresses, fly unmanned drones, and detect stealth bombers. You will also experience virtual tours of iconic vehicles, including the T-34 Tank, the Lockheed F-117 Stealth Bomber, and the AH-64 Apache helicopter. And discover the leaders, battles, and weapons of war that have changed the course of history, and understand the lasting impact of global conflicts. This complete history of weaponry is essential reading for military enthusiasts of all ages.
Author : Ivor Noël Hume
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812217711
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (177 download)
Download or read book A Guide to the Artifacts of Colonial America written by Ivor Noël Hume and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2001-06-15 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back in print, this is the most accurate and useful reference for identifying Anglo-American colonial artifacts.
Author : Clifford Walton
Publisher : London, Harrison & sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book History of the British Standing Army. A.D. 1660 to 1700 written by Clifford Walton and published by London, Harrison & sons. This book was released on 1894 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George D. Moller
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 082635002X
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)
Download or read book American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume III written by George D. Moller and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third volume in Moller’s authoritative reference work describes muzzleloading percussion shoulder arms procured by the U.S. government for issue to federal and state armed forces in the period that includes the Civil War. These twenty-five years were an exciting time in the history of shoulder arms. During the 1840s, only a handful of American manufacturers were capable of producing significant quantities of arms having fully interchangeable components. By the early 1850s, at least one firm was producing rifles with close enough tolerances to be considered fully interchangeable. And thanks to the invention of the expanding bullet, rifled arms could be used by an army’s entire infantry. For the first time, line infantry were equipped with arms capable of rapid reloading and of consistently hitting a man-sized target at distances as great as three hundred yards. Like the first two volumes of American Military Shoulder Arms, this exhaustive reference work will be a must for serious arms collectors, dealers, and museum specialists.
Author : Edward Samuel Farrow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 946 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Farrow's Military Encyclopedia written by Edward Samuel Farrow and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Infantry written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
