<div><B>A complete guide to snipers, rifles, techniques, battles, and campaigns throughout history and around the world, by the author of <I>The Hand Gun Story</I>. </B><BR />  <BR /> The work features hundreds of snipers, including not only the best-known&mdash;world renowned gurus such as Vasiliy Zaytsev and Chris Kyle&mdash;but also many crack shots overlooked by history. Among them are some of more than a thousand Red Army snipers&mdash;men and women, who amassed sufficient kills to be awarded the Medal for Courage and the Order of Glory. Also included are some of the best-known sniper victims, and the veracity of the most popular myths.<BR />  <BR /> The book thoroughly examines the history and development of the many specialist sniper rifles&mdash;some more successful than others&mdash;that have served the world&rsquo;s armies from the nineteenth-century American Wars to today&rsquo;s technology-based conflicts. Attention, too, is paid to the progress made with ammunition&mdash;without which, of course, precision shooting would be impossible. The development of aids and accessories, from camouflage clothing to laser rangefinders, is also considered.<BR />  <BR /> Finally,<I> The Sniper Encyclopedia</I> examines significant locations and specific campaigns&mdash;the way marksman have influenced the course of the individual battles and places which have played a crucial part in the history of sniping, from individual sites to sniper schools and training grounds. The book contains authors&rsquo; biographies, a critical assessment of the many books and memoirs on the world of the sniper, and a guide to research techniques.<BR />  <BR /><B>&ldquo;A remarkable work of research and an endless treasure trove of information for anyone with an interest in the subject.&rdquo; &mdash;Martin Pegler, author of <I>Out Of Nowhere: A History of the Military Sniper</I></B></div>

The Sniper Encyclopaedia

<div>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&#39;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 every aspect of sniping. The work contains personal details of hundreds of snipers, including world-renowned gurus such as Vasiliy Zaytsev and Chris Kyle as well as many crack shots generally overlooked by history. 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&rsquo;s armies since the American Wars of the nineteenth century to today&rsquo;s technology-based conflicts. Attention, too, is paid to the progress made with ammunition&mdash;without which, of course, precision shooting would be impossible and the development of aids and accessories, from camouflage clothing to laser rangefinders.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&rsquo; biographies, a critical assessment of the many books and memoirs from the world of the sniper, and a guide to research techniques.</div>

<div><B>The diary of the Soviet World War II sniper known as the “unseen terror of East Prussia” who killed 59 enemy soldiers before dying heroically at age 20.</B><br/><br/>Roza Shanina was celebrated for her remarkable shooting accuracy and astonishing bravery. Volunteering for military service after the death of her brother in 1941, she fought her way to the frontline and became a key player in a number of major battles. With 59 confirmed Nazi kills, she became the first servicewoman of the 3rd Belorussian Front to receive the Order of Glory. <br/><br/>Although it was strictly forbidden within the Soviet military to keep a combat diary, Shanina managed to maintain hers throughout the last 4 months of her life. In it, she describes the hardships, triumphs, mundanities and extremities of war, the relationships formed and the comrades lost. Translated into English for the first time, the diary is a rare insight into the complexities of what is was to be both a sniper and a woman on the frontline and stands as a testament to Shanina’s humor, determination, extraordinary courage and indefatigable spirit.</div>

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<div><B>A firearms expert &ldquo;traces the history of the &lsquo;one hand gun&rsquo; from its 14th century origins . . . surveying changing technology, techniques, and design&rdquo; (<I>Midwest Book Review</I>).</B><BR />  <BR /> Ideally suited for both attack and self-defense, handguns have gotten smaller and deadlier. But the earliest pistols had a tendency to misfire. This was cured by the cap-lock, which proved a massive success in the American Civil War, with hundreds of thousands of cap-lock revolvers used on each side. Self-contained metal-case cartridges were to bring a fundamental change to handgun design: not only by allowing the introduction of revolvers that ejected automatically or were easily reloaded, but also by paving the way for the automatic pistol. World War I provided the handgun with a proving ground. At the end of the hostilities, with so much surplus weaponry, work on the handgun could have ceased; instead, a new developmental phase was begun by the nations that had emerged from the crumbling Imperial empires. During World War II, the efficiency of well-established designs was confirmed and new designs, such as the Walther P. 38, showed their potential. The emergence of the submachine-gun in 1945 reduced the status of the handgun&mdash;but only temporarily. The need for efficient self-defense shows no signs of lessening; and the rise in shooting for sport, particularly with the revolver, has sharpened the quest for efficiency.<BR />  <BR /> The never ending search for advanced production techniques shows that the handgun has as much a future in the twenty-first century as it had in the heyday of the Wild West, or in the trenches of Passchendaele.</div>

The Hand Gun Story

<div>Guns of the Elite Forces provides a penetrating account of the weapons that elite fighting troops carry into combat. Such elites have always existed in the armies of the world. During World War II, elite units sprang up in most theatres of conflict  the German Brandenburgers carried out clandestine operations in Poland; in the Western Desert, the Long Range Desert Group and SAS penetrated deep behind enemy lines; for larger-scale raids the British Commandos and the US Rangers and Marine Raiders were formed.</div>

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