SAS and Elite Forces Guide
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Overhead block, upward stab, step-through lunge, bayonet slash; knife fighting, handgun shooting, sword play. If your enemy is armed, you need to know how to deal with him. SAS and Elite Forces Guide Armed Combat teaches a huge range of armed close combat techniques, including tips on fighting stances and postures, movement and evasions, quick draws, parries, fend-offs, blocks, cuts, thrusts, strikes, and stabs. Our expert author will teach you how to tackle single opponents and groups using blunt weapons, blades, firearms, and improvised weapons.
Presented in an easy to follow format, SAS and Elite Forces Guide Armed Combat is divided into separate chapters covering fighting skills mindset, what to attack and where to defend, blunt weapons, sharp and pointed weapons, firearms, unarmed techniques, training drills, and improvised techniques. The author also offers plenty of short, handy tips on key topics such as bayonet training, quick draw techniques, copying with injury and dirty tricks.
Written in easy-to-understand steps and accompanied with more than 150 black-and-white illustrations, SAS and Elite Forces Guide Armed Combat guides the reader through everything they need to know to overcome an armed aggressor in any hand-to-hand combat situation.
Presented in an easy to follow format, SAS and Elite Forces Guide Armed Combat is divided into separate chapters covering fighting skills mindset, what to attack and where to defend, blunt weapons, sharp and pointed weapons, firearms, unarmed techniques, training drills, and improvised techniques. The author also offers plenty of short, handy tips on key topics such as bayonet training, quick draw techniques, copying with injury and dirty tricks.
Written in easy-to-understand steps and accompanied with more than 150 black-and-white illustrations, SAS and Elite Forces Guide Armed Combat guides the reader through everything they need to know to overcome an armed aggressor in any hand-to-hand combat situation.
Duck punch, cover block and knee strike. Boxing, wrestling and Ju-Jitsu. Gameplan, lines of attack and final disengagement. If you can't take flight, you're going to have to fight. Extreme Unarmed Combat is an authoritative handbook on an immense array of close combat defence techniques, from fistfights to headlocks, from tackling single unarmed opponents to armed groups, from stance to manoeuvring.
Presented in a handy pocketbook format, Extreme Unarmed Combat's structure considers the different fighting and martial arts skills you can use before looking at the areas of the body to defend, how to attack without letting yourself be hurt and how to incapacitate your opponent.
With more than 300 black-&-white illustrations of combat scenarios, punches, blocks and ducks, and with expert easy-to-follow text, Extreme Unarmed Combat guides you through everything you need to know about what to do when you can't escape trouble. This book could save your life.
Presented in a handy pocketbook format, Extreme Unarmed Combat's structure considers the different fighting and martial arts skills you can use before looking at the areas of the body to defend, how to attack without letting yourself be hurt and how to incapacitate your opponent.
With more than 300 black-&-white illustrations of combat scenarios, punches, blocks and ducks, and with expert easy-to-follow text, Extreme Unarmed Combat guides you through everything you need to know about what to do when you can't escape trouble. This book could save your life.
This book offers useful tips and solid advice on how to evade capture and, if that fails, how to escape. Key topics include the will to survive; handling stress in captivity; escape techniques; survival in a variety of environments, including urban, rural, jungle and desert; how to forage for food; tracking and how to cover your tracks; navigation, with or without a map; and seeking recovery by friendly forces. The book also includes a number of real life accounts of prisoner of war escape from World War II, including The Great Escape story and Colditz, the Vietnam War (Dieter Dengler, with others, escaping from Laos), the Balkans, Iraq (Thomas Hamill in 2004) and Afghanistan.
With more than 120 black and white artworks and with easy-to-follow text, Prisoner Of War Escape and Evasion is for anyone who wants to know how to survive in the most stressful of circumstances and emerge a winner. Presented in a handy, pocket-size format, this is a book you could take with you into the field; and it could save your life.
About the Author
Chris McNab is a wilderness expert, military specialist and author of over 20 survival publications, including How to Survive Anything, Anywhere, Living off the Land, and SAS Training Manual: Endurance Techniques. He holds a PhD from the University of Wales and lives in south Wales, UK.
With more than 120 black and white artworks and with easy-to-follow text, Prisoner Of War Escape and Evasion is for anyone who wants to know how to survive in the most stressful of circumstances and emerge a winner. Presented in a handy, pocket-size format, this is a book you could take with you into the field; and it could save your life.
About the Author
Chris McNab is a wilderness expert, military specialist and author of over 20 survival publications, including How to Survive Anything, Anywhere, Living off the Land, and SAS Training Manual: Endurance Techniques. He holds a PhD from the University of Wales and lives in south Wales, UK.
Whether you are hunting small game or caribou, clay pigeon shooting or target pistol shooting, SAS and Elite Forces Guide: Sporting Guns is a comprehensive introduction to the major gun types used for sport. Wildfowling, clay pigeon shooting, Cowboy Action Shooting, hunting game, target shooting, tracking deer... Gun sports come in many different forms, and the weapons needed to pursue these sports are equally varied-over-and-under shotguns, air rifles, target pistols, spring guns, pump shotguns, bolt-action rifles, and semi-automatic weapons.
Our expert author offers advice on every aspect of gun sports, including choosing the right gun, shooting techniques, calibre and gauge, using sights and scopes, "plinking," maintained lead versus pull-through, shooting safety, game bird shooting, how to deal with misfires, and wilderness hunting techniques. The book also includes individual features on some of the best-known sporting guns, including the Weatherby Mk V, Mossberg 500, Sako TRG 22, Benelli SuperSport, Ruger Mini 14, and the Henry Big Boy.
Including more than 150 artworks, tips, and techniques, Sporting Guns provides a complete guide to sporting guns and their uses for the sporting gun enthusiast.
Our expert author offers advice on every aspect of gun sports, including choosing the right gun, shooting techniques, calibre and gauge, using sights and scopes, "plinking," maintained lead versus pull-through, shooting safety, game bird shooting, how to deal with misfires, and wilderness hunting techniques. The book also includes individual features on some of the best-known sporting guns, including the Weatherby Mk V, Mossberg 500, Sako TRG 22, Benelli SuperSport, Ruger Mini 14, and the Henry Big Boy.
Including more than 150 artworks, tips, and techniques, Sporting Guns provides a complete guide to sporting guns and their uses for the sporting gun enthusiast.
With the aid of superb line artworks, the SAS and Elite Forces Guide: Unarmed Combat demonstrates to the reader how special forces soldiers are taught to excel in hand-to-hand fighting: how they maximise body weight, and the use of various strikes, throws, locks and constrictions to defeat opponents. It explains how different martial arts have been combined by military units to create hand-to-hand combat systems for defence against multiple assailants, for fighting on the ground, for dealing with edged and impact weapons, what works against attackers with firearms and – more importantly – what doesn’t.
With tips and techniques from unarmed combat experts, the book is divided into two main sections. The first covers the mental preparation needed to be ready to defend yourself. The second covers the physical techniques needed to defend yourself, and if necessary, strike back to temporarily incapacitate your attacker and escape. With more than 300 easy-to-follow artworks and handy pullout lists of key information, the SAS and Elite Forces Guide: Unarmed Combat is the definitive guide for anyone wanting to be ready for anything - it could save your life.
About the Author
martin J. Dougherty is a freelance writer and editor specialising in weapons technology, military history and combat techniques. He has previously written Weapons and Fighting Techniques of the Medieval Warrior and contributed to Battles of the Ancient World, Battles of the Medieval World, Battles of the Crusades and Great Military Disasters.
With tips and techniques from unarmed combat experts, the book is divided into two main sections. The first covers the mental preparation needed to be ready to defend yourself. The second covers the physical techniques needed to defend yourself, and if necessary, strike back to temporarily incapacitate your attacker and escape. With more than 300 easy-to-follow artworks and handy pullout lists of key information, the SAS and Elite Forces Guide: Unarmed Combat is the definitive guide for anyone wanting to be ready for anything - it could save your life.
About the Author
martin J. Dougherty is a freelance writer and editor specialising in weapons technology, military history and combat techniques. He has previously written Weapons and Fighting Techniques of the Medieval Warrior and contributed to Battles of the Ancient World, Battles of the Medieval World, Battles of the Crusades and Great Military Disasters.
Combat Techniques is a comprehensive reference work on tactical procedures for infantry today. Illustrated with action photographs and detailed artworks, it provides a thorough insight into how the soldiers of today's armies would fight in any combat scenario they encountered. The book covers all aspects of the battlefield, detailing the various forces and assets at a battlefield commander's disposal, showing how tactics have changed since the end of World War II, and examining a huge range of tactical procedures, from controlling an air strike or firing an anti-tank weapon to sub-zero operations, hostage-rescue situations, fighting in urban or extreme terrain, amphibious assaults, and evading capture. The difficulties of asymmetric warfare are also addressed, with chapters on counter-terrorist and anti-insurgency operations. Using photographs and artworks, Combat Techniques shows the men and equipment of modern armies from around the world, and, with the help of an authoritative text, demonstrates how they operate in today's ever-changing, technology-dominated battlefields.
With the aid of superb line artworks, the Special Forces Wilderness Survival Guide demonstrates the core skills that the world’s elite forces practise to survive in a wilderness environment.
With tips and techniques from special forces manuals, the book is divided into seven chapters, dealing with survival psychology; equipment and clothing; living off the land; shelter; dangers; first aid and navigation.
Clearly illustrated throughout, the book offers useful tips on a vast array of topics, including essential survival kit; finding water; foraging for plant food; dealing with dangerous animals; building shelters; the will to survive; how to forage for food; tracking animals; following rivers and paths; administering first aid; constructing a makeshift splint and navigating without a map.
With more than 300 easy-to-follow artworks and handy pull-out lists of key information, Special Forces Wilderness Survival Guide is the definitive pocket guide for anyone stranded in the wilderness– it could save your life.
About the Author
Chris McNab is a wilderness expert, military specialist and author of over 20 survival publications, including How to Survive Anything, Anywhere, Living off the Land, and SAS Training Manual: Endurance Techniques.
With tips and techniques from special forces manuals, the book is divided into seven chapters, dealing with survival psychology; equipment and clothing; living off the land; shelter; dangers; first aid and navigation.
Clearly illustrated throughout, the book offers useful tips on a vast array of topics, including essential survival kit; finding water; foraging for plant food; dealing with dangerous animals; building shelters; the will to survive; how to forage for food; tracking animals; following rivers and paths; administering first aid; constructing a makeshift splint and navigating without a map.
With more than 300 easy-to-follow artworks and handy pull-out lists of key information, Special Forces Wilderness Survival Guide is the definitive pocket guide for anyone stranded in the wilderness– it could save your life.
About the Author
Chris McNab is a wilderness expert, military specialist and author of over 20 survival publications, including How to Survive Anything, Anywhere, Living off the Land, and SAS Training Manual: Endurance Techniques.
You can train all you like, but when it comes to the crunch, do you have the mental endurance to survive combat situations, being held hostage or finding yourself at the mercy of the elements?
Mental Endurance examines what it takes to be as mentally fit as a special forces soldier. The book explains why it is equally important to focus on diet, rest patterns and mental discipline as it is to concentrate on push-ups, sit-ups and other physical exercises. Using simple steps, the book shows the reader how they can build up their endurance over a matter of weeks and months, and how their quality of life will benefit. Mental Endurance demonstrates how you can gain the psychological edge over your opponent and take greater control of yourself.
Whether you are competing in unarmed combat sports, running a marathon or just looking to get ahead, the book will have helpful and practical advice for you. Exercises such as positive thinking, visualisations and memory games are explored as ways of dealing with solitude, depression, anger management and torture when in crisis situations.
Using 300 instructive artworks, Mental Endurance shows you how special forces units such as the SAS and Delta Force stretch themselves mentally.
Mental Endurance examines what it takes to be as mentally fit as a special forces soldier. The book explains why it is equally important to focus on diet, rest patterns and mental discipline as it is to concentrate on push-ups, sit-ups and other physical exercises. Using simple steps, the book shows the reader how they can build up their endurance over a matter of weeks and months, and how their quality of life will benefit. Mental Endurance demonstrates how you can gain the psychological edge over your opponent and take greater control of yourself.
Whether you are competing in unarmed combat sports, running a marathon or just looking to get ahead, the book will have helpful and practical advice for you. Exercises such as positive thinking, visualisations and memory games are explored as ways of dealing with solitude, depression, anger management and torture when in crisis situations.
Using 300 instructive artworks, Mental Endurance shows you how special forces units such as the SAS and Delta Force stretch themselves mentally.
What are you going to do if the water supply stops? Or if there's no food on sale any more? If there's no electricity? Or if law and order breaks down? Will you manage? Would you make the right decisions? Are you ready for a global pandemic? Preparing To Survive teaches you all the skills and offers you all the tips and information you may need if things really go wrong. 'Preppers' are people who have decided to take their safety into their own hands in learning to live off the land, digging the own wells, providing their own power and defending themselves. In the wake of 9/11 and recent extreme weather events their numbers are growing and there is increasing media coverage of this phenomenon. Preparing To Survive begins with the possible catastrophe scenarios such as disease and virus outbreaks, environmental disasters, wars and terrorism. Chapter by chapter, the book looks at the areas you need to prepare: your home, what you need if you have to take flight, pre-preparing food for a crisis, finding clean water, maintaining your health, defending yourself, and creating power supplies. With tips and techniques from survival experts, this book shows you what to do not only in the moments and hours after disaster has struck, but also in the weeks, months and years that follow. With more than 300 easy-to-follow artworks and handy pull-out lists of key information, Preparing To Survive is the definitive long term survival guide for when help isn't on its way. If disaster strikes, you'll be ready.
The sniper is a lone hunter: to become a special forces sniper requires supreme concentration and extreme self-discipline. SAS and Elite Forces Guide: Sniper examines what it takes to be a special forces elite sniper. It is as important to focus on mental discipline and physical fitness as it is to be able to shoot to Olympic levels of accuracy. You must become an expert in fieldcraft and stalking, and become familiar with nature and the weather.
The book describes the psychological makeup of a sniper, what training is required to become an expert marksman, and what weapons are used by special forces snipers today. Using 300 instructive artworks, SAS and Elite Forces: Sniper shows you how special forces units such as the SAS and Delta Force train their most elite soldiers.
The book describes the psychological makeup of a sniper, what training is required to become an expert marksman, and what weapons are used by special forces snipers today. Using 300 instructive artworks, SAS and Elite Forces: Sniper shows you how special forces units such as the SAS and Delta Force train their most elite soldiers.
With the aid of superb line artworks, Wilderness Survival demonstrates the core skills that the world's elite forces practise to survive in a wilderness environment. With tips and techniques from special forces manuals, the book is divided into seven chapters, dealing with survival psychology; equipment and clothing; living off the land; shelter; dangers; first aid; and navigation.
Clearly illustrated throughout, the book offers useful tips on a vast array of topics, including essential survival kit; finding water; foraging for plant food; dealing with dangerous animals; building shelters; the will to survive; how to forage for food; tracking animals; following rivers and paths; administering first aid; constructing a makeshift splint; and navigating without a map.
With more than 300 easy-to-follow artworks and handy pull-out lists of key information, Wilderness Survival is the definitive pocket guide for anyone stranded in the wilderness - it could save your life.
Clearly illustrated throughout, the book offers useful tips on a vast array of topics, including essential survival kit; finding water; foraging for plant food; dealing with dangerous animals; building shelters; the will to survive; how to forage for food; tracking animals; following rivers and paths; administering first aid; constructing a makeshift splint; and navigating without a map.
With more than 300 easy-to-follow artworks and handy pull-out lists of key information, Wilderness Survival is the definitive pocket guide for anyone stranded in the wilderness - it could save your life.