Sniping in France

Biography & Autobiography
Sniping in France

Author: H. Hesketh-Prichard

Publisher: Tales End Press

ISBN: 9781623580537

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 269

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Major Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard was an explorer and adventurer who revolutionized the training of British Army snipers during the First World War. In this richly-detailed book, he explains his constant efforts to improve sniping standards, which finally resulted in the First Army School of Scouting, Observation and Sniping. Drawing on his experience as a big-game hunter and marksman, he emphasized the importance of camouflage, careful observation, the ability to shoot quickly and accurately, and above all the necessity of out-thinking the opponent – for as he noted, sniping in the trenches was “really neither more nor less than a very high-class form of big game shooting, in which the quarry shot back.” The book includes many anecdotes of his times on the front lines, the various ruses and counter-ruses employed by the snipers on both sides, and his musings on the responsibilities of the sniper in future wars – in which he accurately predicts the role of the scout-sniper teams of today. Detailed appendices reproduce the early curriculum of his sniper school. A contemporary estimated that Hesketh-Prichard’s training saved the lives of over 3,500 Allied soldiers: this book explains how he did it.
Sniping in France
Language: en
Pages: 269

Sniping in France

Authors: H. Hesketh-Prichard
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-07 - Publisher: Tales End Press

Major Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard was an explorer and adventurer who revolutionized the training of British Army snipers during the First World War. In this richly-detailed book, he explains his constant efforts to improve sniping standards, which finally resulted in the First Army School of Scouting, Observation and Sniping. Drawing on
Sniping in France, with Notes on the Scientific Training of Scouts, Observers, and Snipers
Language: en
Pages: 332

Sniping in France, with Notes on the Scientific Training of Scouts, Observers, and Snipers

Authors: Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-08-26 - Publisher: Read Books Ltd

This early work by Hesketh-Prichard was originally published in 1920 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Sniping in France, with Notes on the Scientific Training of Scouts, Observers, and Snipers' is a manual on the art of warfare. Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard was born on
Sniping in France
Language: en
Pages: 224

Sniping in France

Authors: H. Hesketh-Prichard, DSO, MC
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-02-28 - Publisher: Pen and Sword

Available for the first time in years, this is a new edition of the classic account by the adventurer and big game hunter who developed and ran the British Army sniping programme in the First World War. When the war started in 1914, Germany's edge in the sniping duel on
Sniping in France
Language: en
Pages: 330

Sniping in France

Authors: Major H Hesketh-Prichard
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-08-07 - Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1920 Edition.
Sniping in France
Language: en
Pages: 334

Sniping in France

Authors: Hesketh Vernon Hesketh Prichard
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-05-02 - Publisher: Palala Press

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references,

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