Sniping in France 1914-18 With Notes on the Scientific Training of Scouts, Observers, and Snipers

 

Sniping in France provides a detailed and richly-informative account of how the snipers of the Great War British army trained and fought, and measures taken against their German counterparts. The author was responsible for organising a cohesive structure to the training of the snipers via the First Army School of Scouting, Observation and Sniping, established in 1916.

Written in a very readable style, filled with anecdotes and fascinating detail, the author’s study covers the genesis of sniping in the army, his early days instructing XI Corps, and then First Army, including much on the curriculum and work at that unit’s School of Scouting, Observation and Sniping. It also includes anecdotal chapters describing sniping memories, before concluding with recollections of training the Portugese Expeditionary Force’s snipers, and looking ahead to the future of sniping. Detailed appendices reproduce relevant excerpts from the army’s wartime training manuals.

Originally published in 1920, copies are highly sought-after. This reprint is a high quality edition, newly typeset, and featuring a number of charming pencil sketches by Ernest Blaikley.

- Quality reprint of this much sought-after account of the British army’s snipers during the Great War
- Written in a very readable style, filled with anecdotes
- Chapters include: The Genesis of Sniping; The Sniper in the Trenches; The First Army School of Scouting, Observation & Sniping; Some Sniping Memories; An Observer’s Memories; Willibald the Hun: The Training of the Portugese; The Modern Scout.
- Reproduces excerpts from contemporary training manuals

Hesketh-Prichard D.S.O. M.C., Major H.

Hardcover 230mm x 145mm 144 pages 20 sketches, 11 photos

Book Code:  HE0044