The Emma Gees

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Summary: A definitive work on Machine Guns and Snipers in WW I.
Review: This book is a copy of H.W. McBride's lecture notes as he toured after the war. He is somtimes rare, but this makes the book more alive. It is not a publishers dream for read-ability and flow of chronological events, but it give very graphic first-hand experience in WW I trench warfare. The authors experience as a machine gunner, machine gun section leader, sniper and sniper section leader helps the reader visualize the horror of trench warfare. The author is sometime funny and light which is not misplaced amidst the terrible experience he and his fellow veterans lived in the trenches. The definitive work on machine-gunnery and sniping in the First World War. The U.S. Marine Corps Sniper School has made this book mandatory reading for its would-be snipers along with Carlos Hathcock. The tactical view in this book is fresh compared to most of the writing about warfare, which is normally more strategic in nature. Down and dirty, to borrow a phrase.