Weapons
Bayonet
A knife, dagger or spike mounted on the muzzle of a rifle so that the gun can be used as a spear in close combat. The popular image of the First World War is of soldiers with fixed bayonets going over the top and charging across no man's land.
In the ArsenalMentioned in
- Chapter I The Long Fuse §9 Armies and War Plans
- Chapter IV Deadlock §3 Second Ypres and the First Gas Attack
- Chapter VI The Year of Revolutions §2 America Enters, and the World Follows§10 Baghdad, Beersheba and Jerusalem
- Chapter IX In the Trenches §2 A Day in the Line: Stand-To, Rum and Relief§5 Going Over the Top
- Chapter X The Machinery of War §9 Flames, Grenades, Mortars and Clubs