Author: Ripley, Tim, Title: BAYONET BATTLE - Bayonet Warfare in the 20th Century.
Description: Sidgwick and Jackson, London, 1999, 1st edn., [vi], 266pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., black cloth lettered in silver at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the success of the use of the bayonet in hand-to-hand fighting in anumber of battles during the 20th century, from the suicidal but ecentually successful bayonet attacks on Russian defences at Port Arthur in the 1904-5 Russo-Japanese War, the hoorors of WW1 including Gallipoli and the Somme, the close-combat in WW2 including Crete, the Waffen-SS in Normandy, Guadalcanal, Buna and Iwo Jima, Korea, Vietnam and the Falklands, edges tanned, dustwrapper: unpriced, light mark lower edge of reverse, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper,
Keywords: military history war ww1 ww2 korea vietnam aden falklands
Price: GBP 6.00 = appr. US$ 8.57 Seller: A Book for all Reasons
- Book number: 41088
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