Fire Control: Home Guard Training Series

By Colonel G.A. Wade

How often do we hear commanders say they are practically defenceless without machine guns and anti-tank weapons? Yet they have hundreds of men armed with the fi nest weapon of all - the rifl e For general use there is nothing to take its place. Nothing so universally deadly; nothing to beat it in att ack and defence. Fire Control is one of a series of training books writt en in 1942 by Colonel G. A. Wade for the newly-recruited Home Guard. This reproduction from the Royal Armouries' archive shows how the Second World War trainees learnt to handle their rifl es and strategically engage the enemy.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1913013499
• ISBN13: 9781913013493
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Royal Armouries
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.9" x 7.2"