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Author: Andy Dougan
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint: William Collins
Dimensions:
Width: 12.90cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.230kg
ISBN: 9780008189402
ISBN 10: 0008189404
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 25 August 2016
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General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
'A rapid-fire account of the most dishonourable and ungentlemanly tactic in the practice of arms' The Times 'The Hunting of Man reminds us of the business of war. It isn't a regular military history but an intriguing, if dispiriting, history of precision killing. ... Andy Dougan provides a very readable alternative history of conflict, charting the evolution of the marksman from an opportunist with a bow and arrow into a killer who can change history with a single shot' Sunday Telegraph
'[A] rapid-fire account of the most dishonourable and ungentlemanly tactic in the practice of arms ... a pacy and, with the nightly fireworks display from Iraq, timely history of undercover war' The Times 'The Hunting of Man reminds us of the business of war. It isn't a regular military history but an intriguing, if dispiriting, history of precision killing. ... Andy Dougan provides a very readable alternative history of conflict, charting the evolution of the marksman from an opportunist with a bow and arrow into a killer who can change history with a single shot' Sunday Telegraph
PRAISE FOR DYNAMO: 'We are reminded oncve again of football's power to galvanise nations, express political will, and carry any amount of symbolic baggage...Dynamo is written from the heart.' Independent on Sunday 'Just as you think you've read every good book about the war another one is published... I cannot help but think that it would seem wrong to try and forget what happened during the last war until all stories such as this one have been told.' Philip Kerr, The Sunday Times This is clearly a labour of love.' Independent
'A rapid-fire account of the most dishonourable and ungentlemanly tactic in the practice of arms' The Times 'The Hunting of Man reminds us of the business of war. It isn't a regular military history but an intriguing, if dispiriting, history of precision killing. ... Andy Dougan provides a very readable alternative history of conflict, charting the evolution of the marksman from an opportunist with a bow and arrow into a killer who can change history with a single shot' Sunday Telegraph
Author Information
Andy Dougan is a journalist and the author of Dynamo as well as several other books. He lives in Glasgow.
