Weapons of the Great War. Melee weapons of the Russian army

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The second edition of the book is corrected and supplemented and continues the series of books devoted to the armament of the Russian army during the First World War. This book of the series tells about edged weapons: checkers, sabers, broadswords, pikes, daggers, daggers, bayonets, both of which had combat value and were used as ceremonial weapons in peacetime. A special place in the book is occupied by the description of experimental models of edged weapons of the late 1914th - early 1917th centuries, without which the reader's idea of ​​the level of development of Russian weaponry and technical thought would be incomplete. For each sample, a brief history of its creation and adoption is given, and the main changes that the system underwent during its release are highlighted. Much attention is paid to the use of weapons in the troops, their advantages and disadvantages in the eyes of a soldier. For the first time in domestic practice, such items of weapons as curved daggers-bebuts, cavalry lances and parade sabers of the Guards Cossack units are described in great detail. The presented book, like others from the Great War series, was written primarily from the point of view of those who had to fight with these weapons - soldiers and officers of the Russian army at the beginning of the XNUMXth century. In domestic practice, an attempt to describe this kind is made for the first time. Thanks to this, the book will be of interest to historians, costume designers, military reenactors, as well as to anyone interested in the history of the Russian army in the period XNUMX–XNUMX. When writing the book, materials from archival funds were widely used, as well as published sources from the beginning of the XNUMXth century, mainly special and technical literature, which are a rarity in our time. The book is supplied with extensive illustrative material both from museum funds and from private collections. Much of the information contained in the book is being published for the first time.

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Barcode: 9785907245228 SKU: 70149211 Categories: ,
Publication language: Russian

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