There was a thread a while back about a book with a snipers personal experience with the No4 T. Can't seem to find it. I do have Captain C. Shore's book...... any others out there?
There was a thread a while back about a book with a snipers personal experience with the No4 T. Can't seem to find it. I do have Captain C. Shore's book...... any others out there?
The Sniper by Barry Wynne Brit in NW Europe
Sam's Sloppy Sniper Section Don Urquhart Canadian in Korea
Not many others out there that I can think of.....
I have a copy of the sniper i would lend if interested
Sniper one on one
Sniper One-on-One - Google Search
Sniper stalk and kill
Stalk and kill - Google Search
Out of Nowhere: A History of the Military Sniper
Out of Nowhere: A History of the Military Sniper: Amazon.co.uk: Martin Pegler: 8601409993386: Books
Sniper
https://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/title/with-british-snipers-to-the-reich/author/captain-c-shore/
"With British Snipers To The Reich" by Captain C. Shore
This is a must.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian Dick
Basically stop what you are doing and get it.
Gentlemen, we would be a lot more helpful if we actually spent the time to read the initial query more carefully:
1. Bros quite clearly states that he has Shore's book "With British Snipers to the Reich" and does not need 3 further replies to tell him he needs what he already has
2. Bros quite clearly states that he wants personal experience with the No. 4T. General books such as those by Gilbert and Pegler do not meet this requirement and tend to supply only a small amount of 4T information largely derived form other published material.
As a community supplying knowledge we can and should do better than this (and my apologies for pointing this out........
55recce.......I was laughing to myself as I was scrolling down to read the replies....I've been away for a few days. and yes your point certainly has merit.Quote:
Originally Posted by 55recce
Anyhow thanks for admonishing the "boy's"as helpful as they are trying to be.
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Is " The Sniper" by Barry Wynne still in print?
In the grand scheme of things, there are not a lot of "anecdotal" books about the "business" of sniping.
"What Ho, chaps! There we were, my observer and I, lying in our own filth for three days, potting the Hun. The red spray as the contents of a Hun skull was splashed on a wall was most gratifying." That sort of "Flashman Takes Aim" stuff?
I doubt that many EVER put pen to paper to leave much detail about the "nitty-gritty" of the trade.
I believe you can still get it via Amazon.Quote:
Originally Posted by bros
If you get absolutely stuck for a copy PM me, I'm away from base at the moment but I'm sure I have two copies.
B in Oz and 55recce. You are dead right especially in your para 2. I remember some sage words from a good friend, and it's this. The first people to read your book immediately know more than you do. That's because they now know ALL that you have written PLUS the tiny amount that they knew before. And this brings me on to the point. Then they write THEIR book. The next person does the same and the next book gets published - with all the errors being perpetuated. Stop here......
I don't think there are any others? IIRC, Peglar was in contact with ex-6th Green Howards sniper Harry Furniss when doing his book, but from my contact with ex-WW2 vets in years gone by, those few snipers that survived the war, tended to keep quiet about their specialist skill. I only met one, and then I only found out that he was a sniper after he had passed away.Quote:
Originally Posted by bros
Harry Furness is still going. He's now 93 or 94 & to the best of my knowledge the last surviving British sniper to have gone over on D-Day. He's very frail now but he's hanging in there. Quite a man indeed.
Thanks John for being helpful but I found a source.Quote:
Originally Posted by jonh172
Excellent!
Hopefully it makes up for my blunder...
You won't find much because very few soldiers were or are particularly interested in their equipment from technical point of view like a McBride or a Shore. It was a job they did and then tried to forget.
I concur with them not putting it to paper what they did, from somewhere from what I have read one stated "Its a different thing to be able to look at their face clearly and see the shock on the face when they are struck by the bullet unlike the ordinary soldier whom may never see their eyes."
One sniper was I think perhaps may have been bored when he spied a German doing a No.2 and promptly shot him through both butt cheeks..................
Did McBride put out a book like Shore did?Quote:
Originally Posted by Surpmil
A Rifleman Went to War and The Emma Gees
by HW McBride
both good reads