SHOOTING TO LIVE (2007 Reprint)

One of the most influential combat shooting books ever published, Shooting to Live is the product of Capt. W.E. Fairbairn's and Capt. E.A. Sykes practical experience with the handgun from their many close-encounters gunfights while working for the Shanghai Municipal Police in the 1930's. Hundreds of actual incidents provided the basis for this first true instruction manual of 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 Rex Applegate explains how Fairbairn and Sykes introduced their groundbreaking methods into American military training circles at the height of World War II.