Improbable though the workshop manual treatment of soldiers may seem, this book works very well and will allow a large readership to understand how the British Tommy became such and effective combatant in a new and terrible form of warfare. In an age of fully automatic rifles, carbines and pistols, it can be difficult to understand how effective a bolt action rifle can be in the hands of a well trained user. When the Germans first came under fire from Enfield rifle-armed Tommies, they though they were under machine gun fire