CLOSE QUARTER BATTLE

HECTOR GRANT TAYLOR

Verlag: GOVERMENT PRINTER PALASTINE, 1943

Beschreibung

very good condition and signed by HECTOR GRANT TAYLOR! While close quarter battle (CQB) techniques did not originate in any single time or place, the trenches of France in World War I undoubtedly were a vast proving ground for many CQB techniques that included the pistol and the rifle with bayonet attached. This was the environment in which Leonard Hector Grant-Taylor, a British Army officer, was trained to fight and instruct others. During World War II Grant-Taylor specialized in teaching tactics for the .455 Webley revolver, Colt 1911 .45 ACP pistol, Enfield rifle with bayonet, and Thompson submachine gun. His success as an instructor kept him busy he even took part in operations with the men he had trained. No doubt this enabled him to refine the techniques he taught. Compared to those of his contemporaries W.E. Fairbairn and E.A. Sykes, Grant-Taylor s impressive achievements have gone mostly undocumented. There were a few manuals that documented the methods and techniques taught by Grant-Taylor, but this is the best known. Entitled The Palestine Police Force Close Quarter Battle: Revolvers, Automatics, and Submachine Guns, it is more commonly known as The Palestine Police Force Manual. A compilation of lessons taught by Grant-Taylor at the Middle East School of Small Arms in the early 1940s to members of the Palestine Police Force and other units in the Middle East, this manual was not written by Grant-Taylor. Rather it was compiled from notes taken by one of his students, G.A. Broadhead, a superintendent of the Palestine Police Force. It was deemed of such high quality that it was then printed and issued as an official manual of the Palestine Police Force in 1943. Only a small number of copies were ever created for internal use, and just a handful have survived. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1662474722321

Bibliografische Details

Titel: CLOSE QUARTER BATTLE

Verlag: GOVERMENT PRINTER PALASTINE

Erscheinungsdatum: 1943

Einband: Soft cover

Zustand: Good

Signiert: Signed by Author(s)

Auflage: 1st Edition