Fix Bayonets: The U.S. Infantry from the American Civil War to the Surrender of Japan (G.I. Series) [Library Binding]

John P. Langellier (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1999 | Age Level: 11 and up | Series: G.I. Series

Illustrated throughout, this authoritative volume combines rare contemporary images of American infantry men with detailed captions which highlight the finer points of uniform and equipment as they actually appeared in the field.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 11 and up
  
• Library Binding: 76 pages
• Publisher: Chelsea House Pub (L) (September 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0791053784
• ISBN-13: 978-0791053782
• Product Dimensions: 10.4 x 7.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,094,051 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Clear and Incisive Study, July 19, 1999

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This review is from: Fix Bayonets: The U.S. Infantry from the American Civil War to the Surrender of Japan (G.I. Series) (Paperback)

The author has produced a slew of photo studies with incisive text on the life and times of the U.S. soldier, and his Spanish and Mexican californio predecessors also. His specialty is in gathering together contemporary source material for the illustrations. This method has the great virtue of showing what was what and when. But if no photos are available, then something may be omitted. All of these books are vertical studies covering a period of years. Though sometimes the illustrations serve to identify individual items of equipment, these works are not intended for that purpose. They are not catalogs intended for materiel collectors. They are of such a length and of such a level of detail that they will serve the purposes of the general reader with a curiousity about what grandaddy did in WW II or great great great grandaddy in the Civil War and what he looked like and how he lived. This is not to say that the specialist such as myself cannot find useful nuggets herein. I can. I use these for general surveys of periods I do not study in detail, such as the Civil War, and the War With Mexico, etc. And to look up the odd facts. I have yet to be disappointed with any of them.