Deadly Fighting Skills of the World

ISBN 0283063114
Sidgwick & Jackson,1998

This book covers ambushes, assassination, infiltration, night fighting, sabotage and booby traps, sniping, silent weapons, hand-to-hand combat and small-unit tactics. It was published in Britain and the United States, being described in the St Martin’s Press catalogue thus: “the most in-depth study yet of how trained soldiers kill and wound, and a complete insight into how human beings can be turned into deadly fighting machines. All the above and much more is in this exceptionally interesting book, made more graphic by 100 diagrams and 80 photographs.”

This was the last book I wrote for William Armstrong, the managing director of Sidgwick & Jackson, a fine gentleman who sadly passed away in 2006 and who is greatly missed.