The authors: Lt. Col. N. A. Chandler, U.S.M.C. (retired), was an active duty Marine for twenty-four years. He has been both a Rifle and a Weapons Company Commander. Roy F. Chandler, MSgt. U.S. Army (retired) was an active duty soldier for twenty years. A veteran of WWII and Korea, he operated a sniper school, and during the 1950s he was a test NCO at the arctic Test Board in Alaska.

The One Shot Brotherhood is a huge hard cover brick filled with sniper tales and legends. The book is collection of stories and articles by different authors covering subjects from weapon selection to real life war stories. Apparently allot of the stuff is originally from the Death from Afar series of books by the Chandlers. When one first glances through the book it seems like a big mess. Especially when there is no table of contents and the reader can't get a clear picture of what he has in his hands. However, after the initial confusion, great things start to unveil!

Parts that are written by the Chandlers are refreshing read. These men have firm opinions and are certainly not afraid to express them. The opening remarks written by Norm Chandler Jr. describes these two men as "opinionated" and that's understating it a bit. One doesn't necessarily agree with everything the authors say, but they do always state arguments to back up their opinions. Statements like "We say, without reservation, that most of what we see is JUNK." referring to rifles other than Remington, raised some eyebrows amongst our staff but everybody is entitled to their opinion.

A lot of the book is, rightfully so, devoted to men "meaningful to the sniper community - The Brotherhood" and their stories and pictures. Both law enforcement and military sniping are covered. These stories are spiced up with rare pictures many form the heroe's personal archives.

The way the book is edited leaves something to be desired. The font size varies from large to tiny depending from the author, on many pages there are hand drawn arrows linking text to pictures and the book lacks a table of contents. The pictures are all b&w but they are fortunately decent quality. These before mentioned things do not lessen the informational value of the book, but are things that stand out. Most of the book is written with a quite a large font size which in other hand makes the book easy to read, but with "normal" font size the book would be probably half of it's current 514 pages.

The book is quite expensive, it costs around $60.00 in most internet bookstores, but it's certainly worth it. If it wasn't for the few before mentioned weaknesses we would give this book a full five stars. Despite it's few flaws this book definitely sparked interest towards the Death From Afar series and we will be acquiring one for review in the future.