Two new books and one revised edition are to be added to the G.I. Series. The two new books are John Langellier's Fix Bayonets and Christopher Anderson's Grunts. The revised edition is of the very first book that was published in the Series, War in Europe by John Langellier. Fix Bayonets is an overview of the U.S. infantry from the American Civil War to the surrender of Japan. This authoritative volume combines rare contemporary images of American infantrymen with detailed captions which highlight the finer points of uniform and equipment as they actually appeared in the field. The infantry of the Regular Army are presented from the American Civil War, the American West, the Spanish-American War, the 1916 Punitive Expedition against Mexico, to World War I and World War II. Grunts by Christopher Anderson presents the U.S. infantry in Vietnam. By the end of 1965 there were 184,000 American soldiers in Vietnam, involved in a conflict that would prove to be America's longest war. Despite images of waves of helicopters, Napalm and B-52s carpet bombing, Vietnam was essentially an infantryman's war and this detailed study presents images of the men, uniforms and equipment of the American infantry on duty in the jungles and paddy fields of Vietnam. The photographs in Grunts are mostly taken from private collections and never published before. Back to Greenhill Military Book News No. 86 Table of Contents Back to Greenhill Military Book News List of Issues Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 1998 by Greenhill Books This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com