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Where Black Rules White - A Journey Across and about Hayti

By: H. Hesketh Prichard

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Where Black Rules White - A Journey Across and about Hayti

By: H. Hesketh Prichard

This early work by H. Hesketh Prichard was originally published in 1900 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Where Black Rules White - A Journey Across and About Hayti' is a vivid account of the author's travels into the uncharted interior of Haiti. Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard was born on 17th November 1876 in Jhansi, India. Hesketh-Prichard's first published work was 'Tammer's Duel' in 1896, which he sold to Pall Mall Magazine for a guinea. He often wrote with his mother under the pseudonyms "H. Heron" and "E. Heron," and together they created a popular psychic detective series around a character named "Flaxman Low.

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Wrangell-Rokassowsky Press

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1473311659

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9781473311657

Sniping in France 1914-18

With Notes on the Scientific Training of Scouts, Observers, and Snipers

By: H. Hesketh-Prichard

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With Notes on the Scientific Training of Scouts, Observers, and Snipers

By: H. Hesketh-Prichard

The first volume in the new Helion Library of the Great War, a series designed to bring into print rare books long out-of-print, as well as producing translations of important and overlooked material that will contribute to our knowledge of this conflict. 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. Helion's reprint is a high quality edition, newly-typeset, with a new index, and featuring a number of charming pencil sketches by Ernest Blaikley.

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Helion and Company

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1907677429

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9781907677427

Sniping in France

With Notes on the Scientific Training of Scouts, Observers, and Snipers

By: H. Hesketh-Prichard

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Sniping in France

With Notes on the Scientific Training of Scouts, Observers, and Snipers

By: H. Hesketh-Prichard

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.

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Tales End Press

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1623580536

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9781623580537

Sniping in France

How the British Army Won the Sniping War in the Trenches

By: H. Hesketh-Prichard

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Sniping in France

How the British Army Won the Sniping War in the Trenches

By: H. Hesketh-Prichard

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 the Western Front cost thousands of British casualties. Sniping in France explains the methods Hesketh-Prichard used to reverse the situation and help win the sniping war. A glossary of terms and a photograph of the author have been added.

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Pen and Sword

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1473818354

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9781473818354

Through the Heart of Patagonia

By: H. Hesketh Prichard

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Through the Heart of Patagonia

By: H. Hesketh Prichard

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

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Alpha Edition

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9353705479

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9789353705473

Snipers in the Trenches

By: H. Hesketh-Prichard,Harold Harvey

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Snipers in the Trenches

By: H. Hesketh-Prichard,Harold Harvey

This lavishly illustrated single volume compendium brings together two of the most fascinating and richly contrasting primary source accounts of the actions of the British sniper during the Great War. The officer's experience is provided by Sniping In France by Major Hesketh-Pritchard, which gives a very clear overview of the development of the art of the sniper in the British Army. Hesketh-Pritchard was the driving force behind the wider deployment of British Snipers and his comprehensive account of their training and the methods they employed features many examples from his personal experiences of combat in the front lines. The book is heavily illustrated. Private Harold Harvey's account of his life as a front-line sniper originally published as A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire provides a different view. Harvey was a private who served in the trenches as a sniper and his rich account is illustrated by his own sketches and his personal recollections of the realities of what it meant to fight in the trenches as a British sniper.

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1783463090

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Where Black Rules White - A Journey Across and about Hayti

Where Black Rules White - A Journey Across and about Hayti

Sniping in France 1914-18

Sniping in France 1914-18

Sniping in France

Sniping in France

Sniping in France

Sniping in France

Through the Heart of Patagonia

Through the Heart of Patagonia

Snipers in the Trenches

Snipers in the Trenches

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