VERY RARE book ''Get Tough'',Hand-to-handfighting, as taught to the British Commandos by Major W.E, Fairbairn. Extremely nice OSS-MI6 related handbook. This is a nice and much more rare FIRST edition which was published in 1942. In this edition, Fairbairn has the rank CAPTAIN, whereas on later this is changed ot MAJOR. This edition was printed in the USA.

Fairbairnwas a British Royal Marine officer. He developed hand-to-hand combat methods for the allied special forces during World War II. Hedeveloped innovative pistol shooting and fighting techniques and the development of the Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife.

During WW2, he was recruited by the British Secret Service as an Army officer. Together with fellow close-combat instructor Sykes, Fairbairn was commissioned on the General List in 1941.He trained British, American and Canadian Commando and No. 2 Dutch Troop 10th Inter-Allied Commando forces, along with Ranger candidates in close-combat, pistol-shooting and knife-fighting techniques.

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