Bayonet Training 1918

By General Staff

The heroic war poet Siegfried Sassoon gives an unforgettable description in his 'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer' of a bayonet instruction course he attended - and the fierceness of the training given. This 1916 booklet - re-issued in 1918 - which details all aspects of bayonet training, bears out his emphasis on the importance the Army still placed in this simple but trusty weapon. 'The bayonet is an offensive weapon, ' it instructs. 'Go straight at an opponent with the point threatening his throat and deliver the point wherever an opening presents itself.'

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184734867X
• ISBN13: 9781847348678
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Naval & Military Press
• Length: 52 Pages
• Weight: 0.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.0" x 8.0"