Paladin is pleased to reissue this classic book in the field of military battle knives. Allied Military Fighting Knives chronicles in detail the background, development and variations of both common and unusual combat knives. It also provides firsthand accounts by and in-depth interviews with the men who used them in battle, including U.S. Marine Raiders; U.S. Army Rangers; U.S., Canadian and British airborne units; the legendary Gurkhas; the First Special Service Force; such clandestine outfits as the OSS and SOE; and even officers who served in the Shanghai Municipal Police with W.E. Fairbairn and E.A. Sykes. In addition to its focus on military-issue blades, the book devotes chapters to two of the leading private companies that provided knives to soldiers in all war zones - Ek and Randall. A must for historians and collectors alike.
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Robert Buerlein has been called "the best man in America on fixed-blade military knives" by the National Knife Collectors Museum. He is a member of the Board of Consulting Experts for Man at Arms magazine and has written more than 30 feature articles for leading antique arms, military and military history publications. A U.S. Army veteran, Mr. Buerlein is currently the president of the American Historical Foundation in Richmond, Virginia.
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Welcome Resurrection of a Definitive Classic,
By El Cutachero (MD USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Allied Military Fighting Knives: And The Men Who Made Them Famous (Paperback)
It is good to see this classic work has been reprinted. No serious collector of WW II military cutlery can do without this thorough work in their reference collection concerning fighting knives used by the Allied Forces of WW II.The popularity of this work is evidenced by the high prices asked by the book trade in the after market evidenced by the listings on this site under the hardback original edition. [...] Ir gives short schrift to working blades which could be used for fighting. Most of it is about U.S. and British patterns and has little on French and orher nations' issues. It includes much textual description and documentation from official sources; in addition, many first hand accounts are quoted. No need to go on and on about this, If you have any serious interest in the subject this is a must.
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Classic Technical and Histoeical Study,
By El Cutachero (MD USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Allied military fighting knives and the men who made them famous (Paperback)
Lonf out of print, this work covering WW II military knives has been fetching high prices in the book trade for years. For a detailed review see the paper back edition.Suffice it to say, if you seriously have an interest in this subject, this is a must.
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Describing his British Commandos, Churchill said "... there comes from time to time a hand of steel which plucks the (enemy) sentries from their posts." Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World War, First Special Service Force, Marine Raider Stiletto, Marine Corps, Special Forces, Colonel Baldwin, British Commandos, General Frederick, United States, Marine Raiders, The American Historical Foundation, Major General, Trench Knife, Randall Model, British War Office, John Ek Commando Knives, Southern France, Colonel Burhans, Shanghai Municipal Police, South Pacific, Canadian Parachute Battalion, Colonel Robert, Marine Regiment, New York, North Africa New!
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Describing his British Commandos, Churchill said "... there comes from time to time a hand of steel which plucks the (enemy) sentries from their posts." Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World War, First Special Service Force, Marine Raider Stiletto, Marine Corps, Special Forces, Colonel Baldwin, British Commandos, General Frederick, United States, Marine Raiders, The American Historical Foundation, Major General, Trench Knife, Randall Model, British War Office, John Ek Commando Knives, Southern France, Colonel Burhans, Shanghai Municipal Police, South Pacific, Canadian Parachute Battalion, Colonel Robert, Marine Regiment, New York, North Africa New!
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- Get Tough by W.E. Fairbairn on page 5
- North Africa: Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia Including Gibraltar, Pantelleria and the Pelagie Islands and Malta by Graham Hutt on page 64
- The Secret Agent (Oxford World's Classics) by Joseph Conrad on page 167
- The Battle for Khe Sanh by Moyers S. Shore in Front Matter
- The Battle for Guadalcanal by Samuel B. Griffith on page 64
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