This is the best and longest-selling book on close combat in history. Reprinted and in current use by the U.S. Marine Corps as an official training manual, it details methods of self-defense, offensive close combat, combat shooting and crowd-control techniques in riot situations. Colonel Rex Applegate is widely regarded as the father of modern close combat and combat shooting, and this book is considered the standard by which all other books on the subject are judged.
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This is the best and longest-selling book on close combat in history. Reprinted and in current use by the U.S. Marine Corps as an official training manual, it details methods of self-defense, offensive close combat, combat shooting and crowd-control techniques in riot situations. Colonel Rex Applegate is widely regarded as the father of modern close combat and combat shooting, and this book is considered the standard by which all other books on the subject are judged.
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Page block, boards and binding are pristine. Dust wrapper in fine, like new condition. Previous owners name on the inside of front endpaper. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. US veteran operated.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo. xiii, 421pp, index, num bw ills. Or dark blue cloth in jacket. Very slight edge wear to jacket. Secrets of subduing individuals and mobs by a world authority on hand-to-hand fighting and mob control, for defense and law enforcement agencies. Armed and unarmed personal combat, self defense, controlling mobs. Step-by-step instructions and illustrations. Originally published in 1943 this volume has become the standard basic work in the field.
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New in new dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 120 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. 1976 edition with DJ. Book is NEW. No marks or writing. DJ shows minimal wear
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Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Military Service Publishing., Harrisburg, PA. 1951. Xiv, 316 pages. Second Edition. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Stain from removed bookplate present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The classic American manual on mortal combat. This highly-regarded manual was first printed during WWII and widely used in commando training. "War is a brutal business, whether it be war against an ememy or war against the criminal who strikes from within. And personal combat, at close quarters, is its most brutal aspect. Today [during the Korean War] we are fighting against an utterly ruthless Communist enemy, one who feels he must win at any cost, even at the cost of human decency. To survive, the soldier who meets such an enemy must know all the dirty tricks of close combat. The same principle applies when the enemy is domestic. This book is designed to meet this situation. It is an intensely practical and forthright description of the techniques of hand-to-hand combat."-Publisher's Foreword. EB; 8vo 8"-9" tall.
