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Shooting To Live, W.E. Fairbairn & A.E. Sykes

First and only contemporary edition, uncommon. Written by two leading experts in irregular warfare, best known as the inventors of the Fairbairn Sykes fighting knife. Both had formative experiences in Shanghai, Fairbairn as assistant commissioner, Shanghai Municipal Police, Sykes leading their snipers unit. The book "describes methods developed and practised during an eventful quarter of a century and adopted, in spite of their unorthodoxy, by one police organisation after another in the Far East and elsewhere". The text was being reprinted for the US Marine Corps into the 1990s. Octavo. Original green cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Numerous line illustrations to text, many full-page. Spine sunned, touch of foxing to edges of book block and endpapers. A very good copy.
Illustrated by Randolph Schwabe, Slade Professor of Fine Art in the University of London, manly from Photographs by Major. F. A. R. Leitao, Shanghai.
Dust cover as found.
A rare book and only one print run in 1942.

Code: 50639

210.00 GBP