Ath p1387 D 19 ’19 50w
“One of the few interesting but not sordid personal narratives.”
+ Booklist 17:66 N ’20
“Mr Price puts down his remarkable escapades and hairbreadth escapes as a sportsman and an artist. There is something beautifully impersonal in the style of his book. This makes of his book something unique in war annals, a book that is ‘beautifully and completely something,’ as Henry James might have said.” B. D.
+ N Y Times p21 Ag 29 ’20 750w Sat R 129:191 F 21 ’20 750w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p698 N 27 ’19 50w
PRICHARD, HESKETH VERNON HESKETH. Sniping in France, with notes on the scientific training of scouts, observers, and snipers; with a foreword by General Lord Horne of Stirkoke. il *$5 Dutton 623.44
(Eng ed 20–12124)
“Major Hesketh-Prichard was of course, as a big game hunter, a natural sniper. He enjoyed sniping because it employed all his highly specialised hunter faculties to the full—sight, hearing, and all those analytical powers which hunters possess. His book is full of good stories. But what will make the book interesting to the soldier is the complete way in which Major Hesketh-Prichard manages to justify the art of sniping, and to show how intolerable it is to be opposed to a well-organised sniping side unless you can answer in kind. Major Hesketh-Prichard proves completely that it will always be worth while from the point of view of moral to maintain an efficient body of specialist snipers.”—Spec