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Bayonets and Blobsticks - The Canadian Experience of Close Combat 1915-1918 (Paperback)
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Bayonets and Blobsticks - The Canadian Experience of Close Combat 1915-1918 (Paperback)
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For a long time, it has been accepted that the bayonet was an
inadequate weapon in World War I - an anachronism, relied upon by
foolish generals eager to relive the glories of the Napoleonic Wars
while incapable of coming to terms with the modern battlefield and
trench warfare. But was this the reality of the Western Front of
the Great War, or a myth perpetuated by historians? In reality, the
soldiers of World War I seemed oblivious to what appears so obvious
to critics ninety years removed. They quite liked their bayonets,
and they used them - often. In this fascinating and provocative
study, Aaron Taylor Miedema takes a new look at the role of the
bayonet and shock tactics on the Western front. Through the
experience of the Canadian Corps - the British shock troops of the
Western Front - he challenges the conventional view of the bayonet
as an obsolete weapon system and rekindles the controversial debate
over technologies, old and new, on the field of battle.
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