Product Review

One of the most useful books about bayonets is finally back in print! By the late Robert M. Reilly, a comprehensive illustrated guide to U.S. socket bayonets from the Colonial era to the post-Civil War time period. This standard reference work allows for easy identification by collectors, historians and curators. Enthusiasts everywhere will be glad to see it available once more, this time in a handy softcover format. The detailed research behind this work, combined with the technical accuracy of its countless illustrative drawings, will prove invaluable to the novice as well as the advanced student of both bayonets and the scabbards that sheathed them. 100+ black and white illustrations. Softcover reprint, third edition. 8.5" x 11". 221 pages.