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Fully illustrated, this absorbing study explores the evolving
sniping technology and tactics employed by both sides in Asia and
the Pacific during 1941–45. During World War II, both the
Japanese and their Allied opponents made widespread use of snipers
armed with a variety of rifles, scopes and accessories and prepared
by widely differing levels of training and tactical doctrine. The
challenges of fighting in a variety of harsh environments, from the
Pacific islands to the vast expanses of China, prompted
improvisation and innovation on both sides in the ongoing war
between snipers and their adversaries. Often operating at
relatively close ranges in restrictive terrain, snipers made
particularly ingenious use of camouflage and deception as the
fighting spread across Asia and the Pacific in the wake of the
Pearl Harbor attack, while troops tasked with countering enemy
marksmen had to learn the hard way how best to defeat a seemingly
invisible enemy. Small arms expert John Walter considers the
strengths and limitations of the rifles, scopes and accessories
deployed by Japanese snipers and their Allied counterparts, as well
as their different approaches to sniping tactics and training.
Specially commissioned artwork and carefully chosen photographs
illustrate this enthralling study of the sniping war in Asia and
the Pacific during World War II.
This 7th edition is a milestone in the series of Inborn Metabolic
Diseases (IMD), recognised as the standard textbook for
professionals involved in the diagnosis and management of IMD.
Within the last 5 years a Copernican revolution in our
understanding of IMD has changed the definition, concepts,
paradigms, and classification. This new edition now extends the
concept of IMD to include those disturbances in molecular machinery
diagnosed by molecular techniques but currently without measurable
metabolic markers. The book presents a clinical and biochemical
approach to the diagnosis and management of IEM with many
diagnostic algorithms for patients of all ages and with a
particular focus on neurological presentations. It includes
separate, comprehensive sections on IEM classified in 3 major
pathophysiological categories: disorders of energy metabolism, both
mitochondrial and non-mitochondrial; small molecule disorders,
mostly diagnosed with metabolic markers; and complex molecules
disorders, mostly diagnosed with molecular techniques. Two new
chapters were added, describing around 600 disorders of nucleic
acid metabolism, tRNA metabolism, ribosomal biogenesis, and
cellular trafficking.
This is the absorbing story of the handguns credited to Nambu
Kijiro, the principal personal-defence weapons of the Imperial
forces. Featuring full-color artwork and carefully chosen
photographs, this book charts the origins, development, combat use,
and legacy of the Nambu pistols. Cutaway artwork reveals the inner
workings of these important handguns, while specially commissioned
battlescenes depict them in use in action. Influenced by the German
C 96 and other semi-automatic pistols, the first Nambu model was
never accepted for universal issue, being confined largely to
purchase by Japanese officers. Adopted in 1925, the 14th Year Type
was to become the best-known of these handguns, serving in every
campaign undertaken by the Japanese in the 1930s and then
throughout World War II. It served alongside the bizarrely
conceived Type 94, intended as the weapon of airmen, tank crew, and
anyone to whom its compact dimensions were useful. When World War
II ended, thousands of Nambu pistols arrived in America with US
veterans of World War II, while others were carried by insurgents
and other armed groups across South East Asia for decades after
1945. Fully illustrated, this is the engrossing story of these
distinctive pistols, from their origins to their legacy.
This Memorial Volume is being published to mark the centenary year
of the author's birth. It contains essays, hitherto uncollected in
book form, on authors such as Dryden, Herrick, Ben Jonson,
Browning, Coleridge; studies of Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle,
Shelley, Disraeli; and papers on subjects that range from "The
Qualities of Wine" to "Eighteenth Century Poetry". There is a
biographical memoir of Saintsbury by Professor A. Blyth Webster and
personal portraits by Professor Oliver Elton, Sir Herbert Grierson,
and others. Compiled under the co-editorship of Dr John W. Oliver
and Mr Augustus Muir (who were students ofthe author's at the
University of Edinburgh) and of Dr A. M. Clark, lecturer in the
English Department at that University, this volume will be welcomed
by the steadily increasing number of those who appreciate the
richness of Saintsbury's personality and the value of his work as a
critic and literary historian.
This Memorial Volume is being published to mark the centenary year
of George Saintbury's birth. It contains essays, hitherto
uncollected in book form, on authors such as Dryden, Herrick, Ben
Jonson, Browning, Coleridge; studies of Carlyle, Jane Welsh
Carlyle, Shelley, Disraeli; and papers on subjects that range from
"The Qualities of Wine" to "Eighteenth Century Poetry". There is a
biographical memoir of Saintsbury by Professor A. Blyth Webster and
personal portraits by Professor Oliver Elton, Sir Herbert Grierson,
and others. Compiled under the co-editorship of Dr John W. Oliver
and Mr Augustus Muir (who were students of Saintsbury's at the
University of Edinburgh) and of Dr A. M. Clark, lecturer in the
English Department at that University, this volume will be welcomed
by the steadily increasing number of those who appreciate the
richness of Saintsbury's personality and the value of his work as a
critic and literary historian.
While the PP and PPK were intended for police work, the Walther P
38 was produced for the Germany military; all three pistols have
garnered a formidable international reputation since the 1930s. The
innovative Walther PP (Polizeipistole), a double-action
semi-automatic pistol intended for the law-enforcement market,
became available in 1929 and went on to arm the police of several
European countries in the 1930s. Its smaller cousin the PPK, more
readily concealed for undercover work but with reduced magazine
capacity, was produced from 1931. Intended to replace the P 08
Luger, the Walther P 38 was issued from 1940 and equipped the armed
forces of Germany and other countries during and after World War
II, but never entirely replaced the Luger in German service. All
three pistols went on to have lengthy and varied service across the
world after 1945. Both the PP and the PPK remain in production
today, while the P 38 re-emerged as the P1 and equipped West German
forces from 1963 until 2004, when it was replaced by the P8. In
this study, noted authority John Walter assesses the origins,
development, use and legacy of these three high-profile
semi-automatic pistols, alongside other Walther variants, such as
the tiny .25 ACP Modell 9.
Addressing the dynamics of power in early modern societies, this
book challenges the existing tendency to see past societies in
terms of binary oppositions - such as male/female, rich/poor,
rulers/ruled - in which the disadvantaged have influence only in
moments of direct confrontation. Drawing on recent social theory,
the essays offer a series of micro-sociologies of power in early
modern society, ranging from the politics of age, gender and class
to the politics of state-building in the post-Reformation
confessional state. They explore the weapons with which
subordinated groups in their everyday lives could moderate the
exercise of power over them. Recovering the agency of the
disadvantaged, the book also explores the limits to the power that
the disadvantaged could claim in the past. Its findings also have
relevance for thinking about inequality in present-day societies.
Best known for his brief marriage to George Eliot, John Walter
Cross (1840-1924) compiled this three-volume 'autobiography' of
1885 from his late wife's journals and letters. Eliot was never
married to her long-term partner G. H. Lewes, and she courted
further scandal when she married Cross, twenty years her junior, in
the spring of 1880. While these volumes offer a valuable insight
into Eliot's private reflections, what is perhaps most telling is
the material left out or rewritten in Cross' efforts to lend his
wife's unconventional life some respectability, which he does at
the expense of what one reviewer described as Eliot's 'salt and
spice'. George Eliot's Life will be of particular interest to
scholars of nineteenth-century biography and literature. Volume 3
focuses on Eliot's final years, including her later literary
success, travels in Spain, the death of G. H. Lewes, and her
marriage to Cross.
Best known for his brief marriage to George Eliot, John Cross (1840
1924) compiled this three-volume 'autobiography' of 1885 from his
late wife's journals and letters. Eliot was never married to her
long-term partner G. H. Lewes, and she courted further scandal when
she married Cross, twenty years her junior, in 1880. While these
volumes offer a valuable insight into Eliot's private reflections,
what is perhaps most telling is the material left out or rewritten
in Cross' efforts to lend his wife's unconventional life some
respectability, which he does at the expense of what one reviewer
described as Eliot's 'salt and spice'. George Eliot's Life will be
of particular interest to scholars of nineteenth-century biography
and literature. Volume 1 covers Eliot's life from 1819 to 1857,
beginning with a brief sketch of her childhood and continuing with
her move to Coventry, then to London, and travels to Geneva.
This is a critical re-evaluation of one of the best known episodes
of crowd action in the English Revolution, in which crowds in their
thousands invaded and plundered the houses of the landed classes.
The so-called Stour Valley riots have become accepted as the
paradigm of class hostility, determining plebeian behaviour within
the Revolution. An excercise in micro-history, the book questions
this dominant reading by trying to understand the inter-related
contexts of local responses to the political and religious
counter-revolution of the 1630s and the confessional politics of
the early 1640s. It explains both the outbreak of popular
'violence' and its ultimate containment in terms of a popular (and
parliamentary) political culture that legitimised attacks on the
political, but not the social, order. The book also advances a
series of general arguments for reading crowd actions, and
questions how the history of the English Revolution has been
written.
Although Western societies cannot escape from images of famine in
the present world, their direct experience with widespread hunger
has receded into the past. England was one of the very first
countries to escape from the shadow of famine and in this volume, a
team of distinguished economic, social, and demographic historians
analyze why. The contributors combine detailed local studies of
individual communities, broader analyses of the impact of hunger
and disease, and methodological discussions that explore the effect
of crisis mortality on early modern societies. The essays examine
the complex interrelationships among past demographic, social, and
economic structures, and demonstrate that the impact of hunger and
disease can provide a unique vehicle for an exploration of early
modern society.
Best known for his brief marriage to George Eliot, John Walter
Cross (1840 1924) compiled this three-volume 'autobiography' of
1885 from his late wife's journals and letters. Eliot was never
married to her long-term partner G. H. Lewes, and she courted
further scandal when she married Cross, twenty years her junior, in
the spring of 1880. While these volumes offer a valuable insight
into Eliot's private reflections, what is perhaps most telling is
the material left out or rewritten in Cross' efforts to lend his
wife's unconventional life some respectability, which he does at
the expense of what one reviewer described as Eliot's 'salt and
spice'. George Eliot's Life will be of particular interest to
scholars of nineteenth-century biography and literature. Volume 2
covers the years 1858 1866, including Eliot's initial success in
fiction and her travels in Italy, Holland, and along the Rhine.
During the American Civil War, the mounted soldiers fighting on
both sides of the conflict carried a wide array of weapons, from
sabers and lances to carbines, revolvers, and other firearms.
Though some sections of the cavalry placed their trust in the
sabre, the advent of viable breechloading carbines -- especially
repeaters such as the Spencer -- was to transform warfare within
little more than a decade of General Lee's final surrender at
Appomattox. However, output struggled to keep up with unprecedented
demands on manufacturing technology and distribution in areas where
communication was difficult and in states whose primary aim was to
equip their own men rather than contribute to the arming of Federal
or Confederate regiments. In addition, the almost unparalleled
losses of men and equipment ensured that almost any firearm,
effectual or not, was pressed into service. Consequently, the sheer
variety of weaponry carried reflected the mounted soldiers' various
roles in different theatres of operation, but also the availability
-- or otherwise -- of weapons, notably on the Confederate side.
Fully illustrated, this study assesses the effectiveness of the
many different weapons arming the Civil War cavalryman and analyses
the strengths and weaknesses of the decisions made after 1865
concerning the armament of the US cavalry.
The Sniper Encyclopaedia is an indispensable alphabetical,
topic-by-topic guide to a fascinating subject. It is intended as a
companion volume to John Walter's Snipers at War (Greenhill Books,
2017) and is another addition to the Greenhill Sniper Library which
includes a series of first-person memoirs. This is a comprehensive
work that covers virtually any aspect sniping. The work contains
personal details of hundreds of snipers, including not only the
best-known-world-renowned gurus such as Vasiliy Zaytsev and Chris
Kyle-but also many crack shots whom history generally overlooks.
Among them are some of more than a thousand Red Army snipers, men
and a surprising number of women, who amassed sufficient kills to
be awarded the Medal for Courage and, later, the Order of Glory.
Some of the best-known victims of snipers are identified, and the
veracity of some of the most popular myths is explored. The book
pays special attention to the history and development of the many
specialist sniper rifles - some more successful than others - that
have served the world's armies since the American Wars of the
nineteenth century to today's technology-based conflicts.
Attention, too, is paid to the progress made with
ammunition-without which, of course, precision shooting would be
impossible. The development of aids and accessories, from
camouflage clothing to laser rangefinders, is also considered.
Finally, the Sniper Encyclopaedia examines place and specific
campaigns - the way marksman have influenced the course of the
individual battles and locations which have played a crucial part
in the history of sniping, from individual sites to sniper schools
and training grounds. The book contains authors' biographies, a
critical assessment of the many books and memoirs from the world of
the sniper, and a guide to research techniques.
Created by a long-forgotten Austrian nobleman, Adolf Odkolek von
Augezd, the air-cooled Hotchkiss machine gun was the first to
function effectively by tapping propellant gas from the bore as the
gun fired. Although the Hotchkiss would be overshadowed by the
water-cooled Maxim and Vickers Guns, it proved its effectiveness
during the Russo-Japanese War. The gun, quirky though it was, was
successful enough to persuade Laurence Benet and Henri Mercie to
develop the Modele Portative: a man-portable version which, it was
hoped, could move with infantrymen as they advanced. Later mounted
on tanks and aircraft, it became the first automatic weapon to
obtain a 'kill' in aerial combat. Though it served the French and
US armies during World War I (and also the British in areas where
French and British units fought alongside each other), the
Odkolek-Hotchkiss system was to have its longest-term effect in
Japan. Here, a succession of derivatives found favour in theatres
of operations in which water-cooling could be more of a liability
than an asset. When US forces landed on Saipan, Guam and Iwo Jima,
battling their way from island to island across the Pacific, it was
the 'Woodpecker' - the Type 92 Hotchkiss, with its
characteristically slow rate of fire - which cut swathes through
their ranks. Supported by contemporary photographs and full-colour
illustrations, this title explores the exciting and eventful
history of the first successful gas-operated machine gun.
This essential addition to the Norton Introduction to Music History
series provides a comprehensive introduction to the music of the
Baroque, incorporating discussions of culture, religion, and
political history with in-depth analysis of musical compositions.
The narrative is complemented by a wide range of music in both the
text and the accompanying Anthology of Baroque Music; the works
included reflect the innovations and great stylistic diversity of
music during this dynamic period.
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