Gallipoli Sniper: The Remarkable Life of Billy Sing Tapa dura - 2015

Barnsley : Frpntline Books, 2008. Hardcover. Good. Original black boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with b/w photographs, 8vo.

Hardback. Very Good.

South Yorskhire: Frontline, 2015. Reprint edition. Hardcover. Fine(-) to near fine in slightly edge-worn very good jacket with a few closed tears, now in archival mylar.. Small quarto; xi, 340 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations, maps; 24 cm; bibliographical references (pages 308-322) and index. "The Anzac battlefield on Gallipoli was made for snipers. Scrub, cliffs, spurs and hills meant that both Anzac and Turkish positions often overlooked one another. The unwary or unlucky were prey to snipers on both sides, and the sudden crack of a gunshot and instant death were an ever-present menace."--Publisher ¶ Contents: Ch. 1 Yellow canary -- Ch. 2 Sound the trumpet, beat the drum -- Ch. 3 Prepare for War -- Ch. 4 Mounting up -- Ch. 5 Boots and saddles -- Ch. 6 Salt and sand -- Ch. 7 Snipers rule -- Ch. 8 Hunting the hunters -- Ch. 9 Chatham's Post -- Ch. 10 Midgley's Myrmidons -- ch. 11 Shooting the illegitimates -- Ch. 12 Abdul the Terrible -- Ch. 13 Getting out. ¶  Sniping… Leer más

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.