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HIGHLY TRAINED MARKSMEN WITH ONE GOAL — A PERFECT SHOT, A CONFIRMED KILL
Elite snipers — with their lethal aim, iron nerves, torpedo instincts and invariable bravery — play a some-more vicious purpose in complicated troops missions than ever before. Confirmed Kill accurately recounts a drastic actions of a world’s deadliest snipers, from a one-on-one duel between a U.S. Marine sniper and his North Vietnamese reflection that finished with a spectacle shot true by a Vietcong soldier’s gun scope, to a shot dismissed from a towering shallow in Afghanistan that forsaken an gullible Taliban warrior over a mile away. Confirmed Kill sum a missions of a many mythological snipers:
Chuck Mawhinney — Marine with 103 Vietnam War Confirmed Kills
Adelbert Waldron — U.S. Record Holder with 109 Confirmed Kills
Timothy Kellner — Army Sergeant with More Than 100 Confirmed Kills in Operation Iraqi Freedom
Craig Harrison — British Corporal with a World-Record Kill Shot during 2,707 Yards
Nigel Cawthorne is a author of Serial Killers and Mass Murderers, as good as countless other books. His essay has seemed in some-more than 150 newspapers and magazines, including a Financial Times and a Sun. He lives in London
Being a troops sniper myself and being an zealous reader we have examination many each book out there on sniping if not all of them, so we might have rated this book a small hard. Like other books in this genre, it covers a compulsory personalities like "white feather", though what we favourite many about this sniper book was territory dual on "Small Wars" that lonesome sniping affairs in Aden, Northern Ireland, Falklands, Lebanon, Gulf War, Yugoslavia, Somalia and Chechnya. A immeasurable infancy of this territory we have not examination about elsewhere creation this book value a cost. The initial territory of a book lonesome sniping in Vietnam and a third territory lonesome sniper operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. Both these territory were generally regurgitations of other works. Basically this book is not bad and could suggest it to reader new to a sniper genre of books.
There have been a series of glorious books published in a past 20 years on snipers. Just about all of them are listed in a bibliography found in Nigel Cawthorne's CONFIRMED KILL, a 2012 Ulysses Press release. CONFIRMED KILL however will never join a ranks of those books given all it does is retell a stories contained in those books.
CONFIRMED KILL takes a sequential approach, describing a exploits of snipers, mostly American, who saw fight in Vietnam, Aden, Northern Ireland, a Falklands, Lebanon, Grenada and so on by Iraq and Afghanistan. Some of a famous shooters lonesome embody Carlos Hatchcock, Chuck Mawhinney, Adelbert Waldron, Shughart and Gordon, etc.
So, if you're a sniper buff, reading CONFIRMED KILL will give we a sip of literary deja vu. On a other hand, it brings together sniper tales from Iraq, Aden, Chechnya, Panama, Yugoslavia, Somalia and other conflicts. Heads/tales; your call, folks.
*****
4,350 Helpful Votes!
I am not a sniper, though have been an zealous shooter for many years and have examination most of a novel in a bibliography. we would equivocate this book if we have some-more than a flitting seductiveness in sniping. Reading a books from a bibliography would substantially be most some-more interesting. This is radically a rehash with no new element from these books and seems to have nude a life from all of a events. Errors everywhere bothy typographic and technical. For instance describing a .50 distance bullet as a distance of a bottle going down range. While a cartridge is large, though bullet is about 2 inches long. Another story purports a shot during 1000 yds with a breeze that given it was usually 3mph could be ignored. Hard to brawl given of problem meaningful what gun was being used, though given that sniper had used a .308 previously, afterwards that 3mph breeze would have pushed a bullet about 30" left or right (the outline does not contend that way) of indicate of aim. The peculiarity is only too inconsistent. we give 2 stars for some new material, though in general, stay away.
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Elite snipers — with their lethal aim, iron nerves, torpedo instincts and invariable bravery — play a some-more vicious purpose in complicated troops missions than ever before. Confirmed Kill accurately recounts a drastic actions of a world’s deadliest snipers, from a one-on-one duel between a U.S. Marine sniper and his North Vietnamese reflection that finished with a spectacle shot true by a Vietcong soldier’s gun scope, to a shot dismissed from a towering shallow in Afghanistan that forsaken an gullible Taliban warrior over a mile away. Confirmed Kill sum a missions of a many mythological snipers:
Chuck Mawhinney — Marine with 103 Vietnam War Confirmed Kills
Adelbert Waldron — U.S. Record Holder with 109 Confirmed Kills
Timothy Kellner — Army Sergeant with More Than 100 Confirmed Kills in Operation Iraqi Freedom
Craig Harrison — British Corporal with a World-Record Kill Shot during 2,707 Yards
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #121741 in Books
- Published on: 2011-12-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 320 pages
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Nigel Cawthorne is a author of Serial Killers and Mass Murderers, as good as countless other books. His essay has seemed in some-more than 150 newspapers and magazines, including a Financial Times and a Sun. He lives in London
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4 of 4 people found a following examination helpful.
By Troy A. Lettieri
Being a troops sniper myself and being an zealous reader we have examination many each book out there on sniping if not all of them, so we might have rated this book a small hard. Like other books in this genre, it covers a compulsory personalities like "white feather", though what we favourite many about this sniper book was territory dual on "Small Wars" that lonesome sniping affairs in Aden, Northern Ireland, Falklands, Lebanon, Gulf War, Yugoslavia, Somalia and Chechnya. A immeasurable infancy of this territory we have not examination about elsewhere creation this book value a cost. The initial territory of a book lonesome sniping in Vietnam and a third territory lonesome sniper operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. Both these territory were generally regurgitations of other works. Basically this book is not bad and could suggest it to reader new to a sniper genre of books.
1 of 1 people found a following examination helpful.
By Michael OConnor
There have been a series of glorious books published in a past 20 years on snipers. Just about all of them are listed in a bibliography found in Nigel Cawthorne's CONFIRMED KILL, a 2012 Ulysses Press release. CONFIRMED KILL however will never join a ranks of those books given all it does is retell a stories contained in those books.
CONFIRMED KILL takes a sequential approach, describing a exploits of snipers, mostly American, who saw fight in Vietnam, Aden, Northern Ireland, a Falklands, Lebanon, Grenada and so on by Iraq and Afghanistan. Some of a famous shooters lonesome embody Carlos Hatchcock, Chuck Mawhinney, Adelbert Waldron, Shughart and Gordon, etc.
So, if you're a sniper buff, reading CONFIRMED KILL will give we a sip of literary deja vu. On a other hand, it brings together sniper tales from Iraq, Aden, Chechnya, Panama, Yugoslavia, Somalia and other conflicts. Heads/tales; your call, folks.
*****
4,350 Helpful Votes!
1 of 1 people found a following examination helpful.
By Greg Hooten
I am not a sniper, though have been an zealous shooter for many years and have examination most of a novel in a bibliography. we would equivocate this book if we have some-more than a flitting seductiveness in sniping. Reading a books from a bibliography would substantially be most some-more interesting. This is radically a rehash with no new element from these books and seems to have nude a life from all of a events. Errors everywhere bothy typographic and technical. For instance describing a .50 distance bullet as a distance of a bottle going down range. While a cartridge is large, though bullet is about 2 inches long. Another story purports a shot during 1000 yds with a breeze that given it was usually 3mph could be ignored. Hard to brawl given of problem meaningful what gun was being used, though given that sniper had used a .308 previously, afterwards that 3mph breeze would have pushed a bullet about 30" left or right (the outline does not contend that way) of indicate of aim. The peculiarity is only too inconsistent. we give 2 stars for some new material, though in general, stay away.
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