1. Simo Häyhä during his time in action (Roger Moorhouse); Häyhä after his severe wound (Roger Moorhouse); a Mosin-Nagant 1891/30 rifle with PE scope (M. Pegler Collection).
2. British No. 4 Mk 1(T) rifle, with No. 32 scope (Courtesy of Alamo Military Collectables).
3. The No. 32 scope, showing the windage and elevation adjustment dials (Courtesy of Alamo Military Collectables); a German Kar 98k with Ajak scope on a high turret mount (M. Pegler Collection).
4. The preferred British WWII sniper rifle – the P14 (Private Collection, Peter Newark’s Military Pictures); British sniping pioneer of the First World War, H. V. Hesketh-Pritchard; sniping trainer and theorist of the Second World war Captain C. Shore.
5. The P18 1940 telescopic sight used with the P14 rifle (Private Collection, Peter Newark’s Military Pictures); camouflaged sniper suits designed for the British Home Guard (Private Collection, Peter Newark’s Military Pictures).
6. Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the most successful Russian female sniper of the Second World War with over 300 confirmed kills (Soviet Files); Russian sniper Yelizaveta Miranova who was reported to have shot 34 Germans (Major John Plaster Collection); Pavlichenko, the most dangerous woman on earth (Soviet Files).
7. Lyudmila Pavlichenko displays her Hero of The Soviet Union award (Soviet Files); Lyudmila Pavlichenko at work near Odessa (Soviet Files).
8. U.S. Army sniper with a Springfield Model 1903-A4 sniper rifle (Major John Plaster Collection); Bert Kemp as a little boy (Tom C. McKenney); Kemp on leave after returning from Sicily (Tom C. McKenney).
9. Bert Kemp’s partner and friend Corporal Wesley Holly (Tom C. McKenney); Bert Kemp at the time of his medical discharge (Tom C. McKenney); Bert Kemp in later years (Tom C. McKenney).
10. A Japanese sniper using his mosquito net and palm tree foliage for camouflage (Tami Anderson); Henderson Field, Guadalcanal. (U.S. National Archives)
11. Japanese sniper climbing a palm tree (Tami Anderson); destroyed Japanese tanks at the mouth of the Matanikau River, Guadalcanal (U.S. National Archives).
12. Japanese dead on the beach following the battle of Alligator Creek (U.S. National Archives); U.S. Marine sniper on Tarawa poses for the camera (U.S. Marines).
13. Two Marines with Unertl-equipped Springfield rifles (U.S. Marines); Marine sniper on Russell Island (U.S. Marines).
14. Snipers of the Soviet 104th Rifle Division (Artem Drabkin); Soviet snipers on the Karelian Front (Artem Drabkin).
15. A Soviet sniper in action against the Finnish Army (Artem Drabkin); Generals Chuikov and Gurov with Vassili Zaitsev.
16. Snipers of the Russian 32nd Army after being decorated (Artem Drabkin).
17. A portrait of Hitler used as a target during sniper training (Artem Drabkin); Soviet illustration of how to use a camouflage screen during sniping operations (Major John Plaster Collection); a screen of this type being used by a female sniper–observer pair (Major John Plaster Collection).
18. A Soviet sniper prepares to take his shot (Artem Drabkin); a heavily camouflaged Russian sniper team (Major John Plaster Collection).
19. A pair of Russian snipers stalks along a river bank (Major John Plaster Collection); a Red Army soldier takes aim with a M1893/30 Mosin-Nagant rifle fitted with a PEM telescopic sight (Artem Drabkin).
20. A squad of American infantry try to locate a German sniper (U.S. Army); a U.S. Army sniper cleans his Model 1903-A4 rifle during the Italian campaign (U.S. Army).
21. The little 1.5-power Zf.41 scope was issued in huge numbers to the German Army (Major John Plaster Collection); G 43 semi-automatic rifle with Zf.4 scope (Major John Plaster Collection).
22. A German sniper with a First World War-vintage Gewehr 98 sniping rifle (Major John Plaster Collection); a German 73rd Division sniper, Private Hortnek (Major John Plaster Collection).
23. Two British snipers lead a patrol in France, summer 1944 (M. Pegler Collection); a British sergeant cleaning a Lee-Enfield sniping rifle (M. Pegler Collection).
24. Sgt Harry Furness wearing a two-piece smock over his battledress (Courtesy of H. Furness); Patrick Devlin (IWM); Sgt Harry Furness at the end of the war (Courtesy of H. Furness); a Canadian sniper in a Denison smock (National Archives of Canada).