Book about black watch snipers in Normandy
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2 sections of black and white photos but only a couple featuring No 4 Mk 1T
Having read a couple of chapters I am enjoying the book. There are a couple of niggles:
1. It is written in an overly dramatic narrative style "With their hearts now racing, throats burning and the near-defeaning tone of cartoid arteries pounding in their ears...."
2. Technical details are sketchy in place which would seem to indicate that the writer is not a shooter and has not had editorial input from someone who is. A couple of examples of quotes that are sort of true but lack the technical accuracy that we would want are below. This type of thing is easily fixable with correct knowledge and editing. I also think, well if this is not quite right what about everything else......
"Equipped with a specially mounted wooden cheek rest that increased accuracy..."
"What the scouts loved the most about the Lee Enfield was its bolt action, which ran fast and smooth and permitted reloading in a split second without the shooter needing to move off his sights until the stripper clip emptied"
Really annoying and so easy to avoid....
Having read a couple of chapters I am enjoying the book. There are a couple of niggles:
1. It is written in an overly dramatic narrative style "With their hearts now racing, throats burning and the near-defeaning tone of cartoid arteries pounding in their ears...."
2. Technical details are sketchy in place which would seem to indicate that the writer is not a shooter and has not had editorial input from someone who is. A couple of examples of quotes that are sort of true but lack the technical accuracy that we would want are below. This type of thing is easily fixable with correct knowledge and editing. I also think, well if this is not quite right what about everything else......
"Equipped with a specially mounted wooden cheek rest that increased accuracy..."
"What the scouts loved the most about the Lee Enfield was its bolt action, which ran fast and smooth and permitted reloading in a split second without the shooter needing to move off his sights until the stripper clip emptied"
Really annoying and so easy to avoid....
Some books seem to have been written with "paid-by-word" rule in mind.Just rivers of mostly meaningless writing,bit like some "romance" books.
I much prefer memoirs but even some of those are edited with this mindset.Makes for very hard read.
I much prefer memoirs but even some of those are edited with this mindset.Makes for very hard read.
