Without Warning - 20th Century Sniper Equipment of the Canadian Army is an 8 ½" by 11" soft cover book containing 110 illustrations. All the pictures and drawings in the book are b&w.

Without Warning - 20th Century Sniper Equipment of the Canadian Army is book #8 in the UpClose series of specialty books from Service Publications. The book examines the rifles, telescopic sights and camouflage of the canadian sniper. The book starts with the First World War and the use of the Ross rifle & US Warner-Swayze scope and continues to the McMillan 50. cal rifle and its use in Afghanistan. The book pays special attention to the many variations of rifle and scope used in the First World War as well as the use of the Lee-Enfield and No.32 scope in Second World War. There is all-new information on Canadian production as well as development of experimental rifles and scopes during the war. The book also covers the C3 and C3A1 as well as the US Garand and FN series rifles in Canadian use. The entire text is based author's research at the Canadian National Archives and the Canadian Department of National Defense

As mentioned before the book starts from the First World War and moves on to the modern day in pretty straight forward chronological order. As the author is far more informed on the subject of the Canadian sniper equipment than any of our staff members, we did not even try to find any factual errors in this book. The subject matter of this book is covered extremely well and the author has clearly done his homework. The text is often complemented with excerpts from military archives which makes the book a much more interesting than if it had been based solely on the authors text. Even though the illustrations are all b&w they are up to today's standards and are of reasonably good quality. According to the authors notes the photographs are a combination of new pictures provided by collectors and volunteers and contemporary photos found in old files. This would suggest that the pictures in this book are unique as a somewhat comprehensive collection on the subject matter.

If you are interested in the particular subject matter this book is a must have.