This lavishly illustrated single volume compendium brings together two of the most fascinating and richly contrasting primary source accounts of the actions of the British sniper during the Great War. The officer's experience is provided by Sniping In France by Major Hesketh-Pritchard, which gives a very clear overview of the development of the art of the sniper in the British Army. Hesketh-Pritchard was the driving force behind the wider deployment of British Snipers and his comprehensive account of their training and the methods they employed features many examples from his personal experiences of combat in the front lines. The book is heavily illustrated. Private Harold Harvey's account of his life as a front-line sniper originally published as A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire provides a different view. Harvey was a private who served in the trenches as a sniper and his rich account is illustrated by his own sketches and his personal recollections of the realities of what it meant to fight in the trenches as a British sniper. Illustrated throughout
