- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: Pan Books; New edition edition (10 July 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0330367234
- ISBN-13: 978-0330367233
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,582,843 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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An insight into what it is like to be a sniper. An examination of one of the most difficult and dangerous of military skills, this book uses eye-witness accounts to describe the training of a sniper, how he operates and how effective he is on the battlefield.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Stalk and Kill is a patch work of lengthy quotations from memoirs of men who found themselves in combat as snipers. The author has done a good job in collecting and collating them -- but that does not really make a book. Ordered in chronological form, Stalk and Kill begins with the American Revolution and ends with a chapter on contemporary conflicts. There is very little that is original here. While readers may find some of the long quotations interesting, there is simply no "connective tissue" or underlying thread in this collection of other people's memories of wars distant or more recent. The author has done no effort to use his research material in building a coherent picture of what he calls, in the sub-title of the "book," The Sniper Experience. I found Stalk and Kill rather boring and even tiring because of the constant succession of lengthy quotations. I was looking forward to a book focused on sniping tactics, weapons, and lessons of past campaigns. Stalk and Kill is certainly quite removed from that concept. One of the unmistakable signs that Stalk and Kill is a rather indifferent quilt job is that you can begin reading it from, say, the middle and miss really nothing other than the previous 500-word quotations. In fact, the only useful contribution I found in Stalk and Kill was the end notes, where the reader can locate citations of other serious works on sniping. My bottom line: on a scale of zero to ten (with ten standing for Best) Stalk and Kill is around four.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Limited in depiction of "sniper experience"
11 Jan 2004
Format:Hardcover
The history of sniping provided is the usual standard stuff; like most books, this book begins its account from the American Revolution, continuing through the American Civil War and the World Wars to approximately the last decade, although "stalk and kill - the sniper experience" goes a long way back before that and should include the use of weapons other than firearms. In depicting post-World War 2 sniping, the author limits himself to theaters in which the British had influence (Falklands, Korea, Yemen etc) and the experiences of the British Army, various English mercenaries, and the SAS. He fails to discuss "the sniper experience" of Russia's wars, or the Caucasus, Africa, or the Middle East. While the book's best focus is on the First World War, it does not particularly shine even in portraying that theater. Overall a lackluster book of fairly limited scope.
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
excellant
20 Jun 2001
Format:Mass Market Paperback
i would recomend this book to any body interseted in snipers and the tactics that snipers use to get with in killing range of their target, this book was very interesting and informative
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Factual
14 Nov 2008
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This is a fairly good book, however. I prefer stories about a person's experiences. This is more generically about snipers. It covers what it takes to be a sniper, the skills,the training, the experience if you will. If you don't know a lot about snipers and wish to discover more, not a bad book to buy.
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US ARMY SNIPER
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US ARMY SNIPER
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