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The crack-shots of the war in the trenches
Military historians have always been interested in the activities
of snipers. For the uninitiated, there is something romantic about
the lone marksman, far away from the security of his lines and his
comrades, who lies camouflaged and still until the opportunity
arises to strike down one of the enemy. It is a lonely and perilous
way to make war and requires an individual not only possessed of
great weaponry skills, but one with the mental fortitude to execute
his task. For the enemy, death, coming swiftly and unseen from an
unknown quarter, is a terrifying and demoralising prospect. We know
much of the snipers of modern times, armed with their high powered
and technical equipment, but the 'bolt from the blue' is as old as
warfare itself. Kipling told it well in his poetry when he wrote,
'two thousand pounds of education drops to a ten rupee jezail.'
This book concerns the snipers of the British Army as they operated
in France during the First World War. It is an excellent book
written by an author with first hand experience. The reader is
taken through activities at the first Army School of Scouting,
Observation and Sniping and the principles of sniping as they
applied to the trench warfare. The author describes the genesis of
sniping as the British Army went to war and includes many first
hand accounts and often amusing anecdotes of the activities,
snipers and observers operating between the battle lines at the
height of the conflict. Recommended for all those interested in the
Great War.
Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each
title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our
hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their
spines and fabric head and tail bands.
This early work by H. Hesketh Prichard was originally published in
1900 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory
biography. 'Where Black Rules White - A Journey Across and About
Hayti' is a vivid account of the author's travels into the
uncharted interior of Haiti. Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard was
born on 17th November 1876 in Jhansi, India. Hesketh-Prichard's
first published work was 'Tammer's Duel' in 1896, which he sold to
Pall Mall Magazine for a guinea. He often wrote with his mother
under the pseudonyms "H. Heron" and "E. Heron," and together they
created a popular psychic detective series around a character named
"Flaxman Low."
The crack-shots of the war in the trenches
Military historians have always been interested in the activities
of snipers. For the uninitiated, there is something romantic about
the lone marksman, far away from the security of his lines and his
comrades, who lies camouflaged and still until the opportunity
arises to strike down one of the enemy. It is a lonely and perilous
way to make war and requires an individual not only possessed of
great weaponry skills, but one with the mental fortitude to execute
his task. For the enemy, death, coming swiftly and unseen from an
unknown quarter, is a terrifying and demoralising prospect. We know
much of the snipers of modern times, armed with their high powered
and technical equipment, but the 'bolt from the blue' is as old as
warfare itself. Kipling told it well in his poetry when he wrote,
'two thousand pounds of education drops to a ten rupee jezail.'
This book concerns the snipers of the British Army as they operated
in France during the First World War. It is an excellent book
written by an author with first hand experience. The reader is
taken through activities at the first Army School of Scouting,
Observation and Sniping and the principles of sniping as they
applied to the trench warfare. The author describes the genesis of
sniping as the British Army went to war and includes many first
hand accounts and often amusing anecdotes of the activities,
snipers and observers operating between the battle lines at the
height of the conflict. Recommended for all those interested in the
Great War.
Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each
title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our
hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their
spines and fabric head and tail bands.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
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