{"product_id":"2940014667876","title":"Sniping in France: With Notes on the Scientific Training of Scouts, Observers, and Snipers","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of Contents:\u003cbr\u003e • I. The Genesis of Sniping\u003cbr\u003e • II. The Sniper in the Trenches\u003cbr\u003e • III. Early Days with the XI Corps and First Army\u003cbr\u003e • IV. The First Army School of Scouting, Observation and Sniping\u003cbr\u003e • V. Some Sniping Memories\u003cbr\u003e • VI. An Observer’s Memories\u003cbr\u003e • VII. The Curriculum and Work at First Army School of S.O.S.\u003cbr\u003e • VIII. Wilibald the Hun\u003cbr\u003e • IX. The Cat\u003cbr\u003e • X. The Training of the Portuguese\u003cbr\u003e • XI. The Modern Scout\u003cbr\u003e • Appendix A. Programme for Training Observers.\u003cbr\u003e • Appendix B. General Course at First Army School of S.O.S.\u003cbr\u003e • Appendix C. Care of Arms, Grouping and Range Practices","brand":"Tales End Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47146092790000,"sku":"2940014667876","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014667876_p0.jpg?v=1763613040","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014667876","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}