About the Author
Adrian D Gilbert is the bestselling author of POW: Allied Prisoners in Europe, 1939-45 and Sniper: The Skills, the Weapons, and the Experiences. He has contributed to military history documentaries on both the History Channel and the Discovery Channel and has written for a variety of publications, show more including the Sunday Times and the Guardian. His website is www.adrian-gilbert.co.uk. show less
Works by Adrian D. Gilbert
Sniper: Master of Terrain, Technology, And Timing, He Is A Hunter Of Human Prey And The Military's Most Feared Fighter. (1994) 118 copies
Voices of the Foreign Legion: The History of the World's Most Famous Fighting Corps (2009) 35 copies
Germany's Lightning War: From the Invasion of Poland to El Alamein (The Campaigns of World War II) (2000) 18 copies
Hitlers Blitzkrieg 1 copy
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In Sniper, military historian Adrain Gilbert presents a comprehensive study of combat sniping in all its facets. He examines its historical background-from sniping's origins in the American Revolution to its establishement as a tactical discipline during the World Wars as well as technical developments-from the development of the snper rifle and the importance of ammunition to the impact of the elecronic revoluton that has enabled the sniper to see in the dark and locate a target with pinpoint accuracy.
Extensive eyewitness accounts-from the WWII sniper battles between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army, to the long-range firefights of Vietnam, to the recent Gulf conflicts-provide the reader with valuable insights into the reality of combat sniping. Sniper is the authoritative study of this most crucial of modern military arts.
Adrian Gilbert is a military historian who has written extensively on modern warfare. He lives in England.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Figures in thetext
Introduction
A note on measurements
Part One The historical background
1 Fiflemen and skirmishers
2 The American Civil War
3 Sniping and nineteenth-century technology
Part Two Sniping in the two world wars
4 The sniper emerges: 1914-16
Trench warfare
Gallipoli adventure
Violence and moderation
5 A fully-fledged article: The sniper 1916-18
The new professionals
Sniper versus sniper
Camouflage and observation
6 The second world war
Opening rounds
Barbarossa and after
War in the West
Sniping in the Pacific
Part Three The modern sniper
7 The Korean War
8 Wound ballistics
9 The war in Vietnam
Snipers from the North
The Marine Corps response
The Army sniper programme
Technology and th esniper
10 British sniping after 1945
11 The basics of sniper training
Marksmanship
Field trainng
Sniper employment
12 The sniper training course
13 Sniping in recent conflicts
14 The sniper today
Part Four Weapons of war
15 Rifles
16 Ammunition
Notes
Bibliography
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