By Philip Katcher

The improvement people military infantry gear has been a narrative of trial and blunder, of adopting new designs to satisfy new difficulties. It used to be now not until eventually 1910 entire procedure of kit, together with every little thing from the waist belts to the canteens to the cartridge-carriers to the haversack, used to be formally followed. ahead of that, every piece of kit was once designed to satisfy a particular want, with no consideration of the rest the soldier needed to hold. choked with photos and illustrations, this ebook explores the background folks Infantry equipments from 1775 to 1910, masking every little thing from blankets to bayonets.

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