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One of the most influential combat shooting books ever published, Shooting to Live is the product of Capt. W.E. Fairbairns and Capt. E.A. Sykes practical experience with the handgun from their many close-quarters gunfights while working for the Shanghai Municipal Police in the 1930s. This expanded edition contains a new foreword by British World War II combatives expert Phil Mathews, which sheds new light on the career of E.A. Sykes - the forgotten hero of the Fairbairn-Sykes duo - as well as previously unpublished photos. Hundreds of actual incidents provided the basis for this first true instruction manual on life-or-death shootouts with the pistol. In clear, concise terms, the book teaches the concepts, considerations and applications of combat pistolcraft. A foreword by Col. Rex Applegate explains how Fairbairn and Sykes introduced their groundbreaking methods into American military training circles at the height of World War II.

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• Full title: Shooting to Live: Expanded Edition
• Author: Capt W. E. Fairbairn, Capt E. a. Sykes, W. E. Fairbairn
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 122
• EAN: 9781581606782
• ISBN: 1581606788
• ID: 12322586
• Publisher: PALADIN PR
• Weight: 177 g
• Dimensions: 213 × 140 × 8 mm
• Date of publishing: October 2008

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