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“What was the point of a rifle bullet that could strike a man two kilometers away now that soldiers wore camouflage and moved by…

— C.J. Chivers

“He was on the fifth floor of the hotel, two hundred and fifty yards from the meeting site, according to the laser range-finder that…

— Stephen England

I was in the back part of the bunker, so I had to carry the whole bunker. It was probably 20 yards.

— Trent Dilfer

“Why did we so consistently look at the West through the sights of a rifle?”

— Dan Flores

“The peculiarity of the Battle of Waterloo was its narrow compass, with 140,000 men crammed into three square miles; the front was only four…

— Frank McLynn

“forty-seven years old, tired, but none the worse for wear. In a little more than thirteen months, he had discovered, analyzed, and packed tens…

— Robert M. Edsel

“A forward patrol reported capturing a French headquarters near La Sénia, five miles south of Oran, but the office safe yielded only two brassieres…

— Rick Atkinson

“No sooner had the thought occurred to him than he found himself staring down the barrel of a single-shot caplock pistol, and halted in…

— Katie Lynn Johnson

“On March 13, 1957, with guns blazing, they exited their vehicles and attacked the unwary guards at the Presidential Palace. Running, the attackers stormed…

— Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba

“The gunman shifted his aim, following Victor’s path as he leaped into the adjacent bathroom, bullets blowing a line of neat holes out of…

— Tom Wood

“In case anyone in America had missed the utter helplessness of their government, 4,000 British troops captured and burned Washington DC. The Presidential mansion,…

— Andrew Lambert

“Hundreds, maybe thousands, naked and hairless (and what the fuck was up with that anyway?) were distracted by the crack of my gun and…

— Bobby Adair