Grenade Warfare

Allowing the user to inflict damage on his opponent within throwing range without leaving cover, the portable, lethally efficient hand grenade is a ubiquitous weapon of modern warfare, and has now found its way into law-enforcement arsenals too. Featuring specially commissioned full-colour artwork and an array of revealing photographs of grenades in use and in close-up, this engaging study explores and assesses the origins, development, combat use, and lasting legacy of the formidable military hand grenade.

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"Hand Grenades: A handbook on rifle and hand grenades" by Graham Montgomery Ainslie. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Excerpt from Grenade Warfare: Notes on the Training Organization of Grenadiers I. Subjects of Instruction. Grenadier Instructors must be thoroughly conversant with the following Official Publications: - 1. Manual of Field Engineering, Chap. XIV, Secs. 98-107. 2.Infantry Training. Appendix 1. 3. Musketry Regulations. Part 1, Appendix VII. 4. Instruction Guide to Grenades. 1915. There is as yet, however, no official publication dealing with the practical training of grenadiers. It is the purpose of the following notes to suggest a simple scheme of training, avoiding the more intricate technical detail, and concentrating mainly on the practica qualifications which an efficient grenadier must possess. There are seven main subjects of training: 1. Explosives, Detonators, Fuzes, etc. 2. Improvised Bombs. 3. Service Grenades. 4. Grenade Throwing. 5. Bayonet Fighting. 6. Barricading. 7. Organisation and Tactics. The first three are partly theoretical, and there is no need to teach more than a simple working knowledge of the subjects. Nos. 4, 5, 6, call for long and careful practice, and a high degree of skill. No. 7 should be made the final stage of training, and must not be attempted until an adequate standard in every other subject been reached. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.