Sniping in France with Notes on the Scientific Training of Scouts Observers and Snipers eBook Hesketh HeskethPrichard
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This early work by Hesketh-Prichard was originally published in 1920 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Sniping in France, with Notes on the Scientific Training of Scouts, Observers, and Snipers' is a manual on the art of warfare. 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".
Sniping in France with Notes on the Scientific Training of Scouts Observers and Snipers eBook Hesketh HeskethPrichard
For those of you interested in this specific subject, this book should go on your must read list as it is an important book in more ways than one.To begin, this is the story of the art of sniping during war time being reinvented, yet again, during WWI. The German army already had expert sniper teams in the field and were taking a horrendous toll. While several individuals took part, K. Hesketh-Prichard took a leading role in establishing sniper schools, training and techniques and more importantly, how the sniper could be intergraded into battle formations. He was more or less the granddaddy of it all as well as the granddaddy of our modern scouting programs in the military.
In addition to this, Hesketh-Prichard gives us insight into the military beurocratic mind set of the times (some things never change..eh?). This is the story of how the modern sniper came into being.
This work will be of interest to military historians and I should think historians in general. I will tell you that there is a certain "dry" element to the narration, not uncommon either then or now for such records and accounts. Having spent a lifetime digging through academic history books and over twenty years of reading military reports it did not take much of a leap in my case but I can most certainly see how it might trouble some readers.
One of the most interesting elements of this book was the fact that when we first become involved in the war in Viet Nam our sniper knowledge, skills and philosophy was almost nil. After WWII almost all knowledge of this element of battle was lost and relegated to musty old books stuffed here and there. Much of what we started with in the Viet Nam era, which continues today, was gleaned from this work and other like it written generations ago. We seem to be a society doomed to ignore our history and dearly pay for it from time to time.
Anyway, this is a good and an interesting read and I am glad it is now once again available.
Don Blankenship
The Ozarks
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Sniping in France with Notes on the Scientific Training of Scouts Observers and Snipers eBook Hesketh HeskethPrichard Reviews
This is an interesting book. The topic is good the information excellent but it reads like a text book. I liked it but it is not an interesting read but a teaching read. You must be really interested in the subject to reAlly appreciate this book.
A few very interesting nuggets embedded in a matrix of trivia. The student of WW1 might pick up some unusual data but what was new could have been condensed into five or six pages.
First off, you have to like to read War Histories. I will never celebrate war, but want to commemorate it. I want to learn of the folks that wen thru unimaginable hardships and keep fighting. This book starts off by having an English Big Game hunter show the Military Powers that be (in WWI), how to organize sniping, at a time when the German's were masters of the evil art. No small feat or sacrifice, very compelling stories of folks from the social mores of the times......
It is an interesting book. Not very exciting, but quite informative. It is more like a textbook than an autobiography. It lacks much regarding the personal interactions among the men. Interesting, but rather dry.
Ancient book about sniping in WW1. A very dated, military style contains an interesting story about how to deal with an enemy who is picking off you men in large numbers.
I read this some time ago and as a result of life saving heart surgery my memory is not great. However, Mr. Hesketh-Pritchard's success in combating the German menace is uplifting. This is a story of competence acquired and applied effectively.
As a Brit, it was good to hear of military competence contributing to reduction in the slaughter of English, French, and American soldiers albeit at a cost to our opponents.
Pity the only response to gas was OUR gas. It was rockets second time round.
British view of admin issues in establishing a scout sniper school with enough low key combat discussion to make it interesting. Valuable read for a those interested in warfare from the field officer, staff officer. Training officer and logistics point of view. Tactical education value is contextualized to time and place but still useful to someone interested in special forces, raiding, scout or sniping specialization in the military. Lots of useful advice for potential combat soldiers too.
This short book was very interesting to me because now, over 100 years since the events described have taken place, the role of sniping on the battlefield has evolved, sometimes painfully following the lessons clearly learned during WWI in Europe.
The English were woefully unprepared to face German snipers who exacted a heavy toll. They eventually caught up as seen in this book.
By WWII, amazingly, only 20 odd years since the conclusion of WWI, sniping in the West had deteriorated dramatically. Again the Germans excelled and exacted a heavy price.
Such was also repeated in Korea and Vietnam for the US military. It is nothing short of astonishing to me that the painful bloody lessons of two world wars were so quickly forgotten.
For those of you interested in this specific subject, this book should go on your must read list as it is an important book in more ways than one.
To begin, this is the story of the art of sniping during war time being reinvented, yet again, during WWI. The German army already had expert sniper teams in the field and were taking a horrendous toll. While several individuals took part, K. Hesketh-Prichard took a leading role in establishing sniper schools, training and techniques and more importantly, how the sniper could be intergraded into battle formations. He was more or less the granddaddy of it all as well as the granddaddy of our modern scouting programs in the military.
In addition to this, Hesketh-Prichard gives us insight into the military beurocratic mind set of the times (some things never change..eh?). This is the story of how the modern sniper came into being.
This work will be of interest to military historians and I should think historians in general. I will tell you that there is a certain "dry" element to the narration, not uncommon either then or now for such records and accounts. Having spent a lifetime digging through academic history books and over twenty years of reading military reports it did not take much of a leap in my case but I can most certainly see how it might trouble some readers.
One of the most interesting elements of this book was the fact that when we first become involved in the war in Viet Nam our sniper knowledge, skills and philosophy was almost nil. After WWII almost all knowledge of this element of battle was lost and relegated to musty old books stuffed here and there. Much of what we started with in the Viet Nam era, which continues today, was gleaned from this work and other like it written generations ago. We seem to be a society doomed to ignore our history and dearly pay for it from time to time.
Anyway, this is a good and an interesting read and I am glad it is now once again available.
Don Blankenship
The Ozarks
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