Publisher's Synopsis
Robert F. Burgess' latest book looks closely at wartime's lone wolf sniper, the sharpshooter sent on highly secret missions to take out a single important target; or in Nam who crawled underground to fight the enemy in the dark. Here's how they prepared themselves for the worst of it - in Carlos Hathcock's case a three-day crawl in slow-motion through heavily guarded enemy territory before he even reaches his protected target. How could he possibly do it? The same way he won the Wimbledon Cup. By figuring out how to overcome the odds against him!You will also meet Russian and Finnish snipers with clever tactics that made them heroes and in the thick of the action you learn what tricks they used to outsmart enemy snipers sent to get them. In between the high-tension action Burgess gives you a brief history of sniping from the early days through the World Wars and the kind of rifles they used and improved.
