The first of a five volume series that opens the door on U.S.M.C. Sniping. There are stories and incidents that will amaze, amuse, and instruct. This definitive work is solid stuff that combines a reference work with the real-world of the finest warrior-marksman ever trained. A reader-friendly series, Death From Afar uses handsome writing of informative style, presented in large, readable script and a huge assemblage of thouroughly captioned photographs. The series allows an inside look at the deadly world of the Marine Corps Scout Sniper.

Death From Afar Vol. I

Chandler, Norman A.

Chandler, Roy F.

Iron Brigade Publishing

Volume II continues the series' in-depth examination of U.S.M.C. Sniping. It opens with a Desert Storm sniper kill report and includes the latest Marine Corps Rifle purchases. Scopes, rifles, ghillie suits and war stories... are all here. There are book reviews, sniping tips, unusual stuff, and lots of informed opinion... nothing is ommitted.

Death From Afar Vol. II

Volume IV continues to report, editorialize, and speculate on Marine Corps Scout Sniping. We write for snipers and those interested in the art. Much of what we write about is not considered politically correct. We could not care less. Sniping, it sometimes seems, is supposed to be efficiently carried out, but no one is supposed to publicly mention or notice the dangerous and demanding duty. The Scout Sniper really is an enemy's worst nightmare. Not only do Scout Snipers discover secrets, they kill important people. 
If our words are insensitive, so be it. 
The Scout Sniper is the Marine Corps' most potent and cost-effective weapon. Until the Corps is willing to stand up and recognize that effectiveness and the Scout Snipers' essentiality, the snipers role will continue to be misunderstood, mismanaged, and downgraded.

Death From Afar Vol. IV

In the Iraqi Deserts of the 1990s, an American military scout sniper was always in deadly danger. Staff Sergeant "Clicker" Bell's team was dug-in and on duty when unexpected orders to assist in a rescue blew everything apart. Sniper One ranges from the Iraqi Deserts to the western mountains of the United States as the acts of war spill over into at least as deadly peacetime combats. 
This is a tale of action and adventure and a reader will empathize with the fighters and comrades involved. If you enjoy weaponry, large-as-life heroism, gritty combat, and real men with men action, Sniper One will draw you and make you one with the world of military trained long-distance warriors.

Sniper One

Iron Brigade Armory, Publisher

Those who have read or reviewed Arrowmaker claim the story is better than even the frontier classics "Drums Along the Mohawk" and. "The Last of the Mohicans." We, the publishers agree. There has never been such a fulfilling tale of the colonial frontier. Arrowmaker leaves a reader satisfied. Things come out the way they should, and in these days of confused and irresolute writing that alone is gratifying. 
Arrowmaker is filled with exploring, building and fighting. The story is based on facts including actual incidents that occurred in the areas depicted. If a reader chose, he could go to the land described and walk the ground while recognizing the physical features written about. 
Arrowmaker is replete with the danger and violence of the times, but the warring is believable and much of it really happened. 
Readers develop a unique empathy with the frontiersman, Rob Shatto, and when finished each reader will have gained a new friend that he will cherish as if Rob's great wilderness home had been just down the road. In this volume you will meet frontiersmen and Indians who reappear in succeeding books of this frontier series, but you must read Arrowmaker first. It is the soul-the heart-of all that comes after, and believe us, you will wait with impatience the coming of the next book and each thereafter. We know it is so because we (including the author) have experienced it. The adventure is heady, and we highly recommend it.

Arrowmaker

The Pennsylvania frontier of 1754 could seem too deadly to endure. War parties swept from the protection of mountain strongholds to kill and destroy the white settlers invading their forests. Driven from their traditional homelands, Shawnee and Delaware bands trotted east along ancient warrior paths seeking vengeance. To the north, the Six Nations of Iroquois Confederacy possessed the might to drive all whites into the sea. Lured by land ownership, Jack Elan moved his small family west of the great Susquehanna River and beyond civilization’s comforting safety to wrench a living from the virgin forests and meadows of the Allegheny foothills. Toquisson, of the Shawnee, known as the Heart-Eater, also hunted the rich game lands. His discovery of Elan’s cabin nestled against Concocheague Mountain began a year long struggle to the death. The Black Rifle speaks of Jack Elan’s soul-devouring efforts to become a frontier killer capable of battling a Shawnee warrior, and of Elan’s search for a very special rifle to bring him final victory. Elan must harden his heart and his body. He must learn to shoot and scout beyond skills he had ever imagined. Then, tempered by the fires of massacre and blinding hatred, he must face in battle the savage enemy who had destroyed all that Elan had valued. Mentored by Rob Shatto, the unmatchable frontiersman who was raised among the Delaware and Blue Moccasin, the most renowned of all message carriers, Elan carries his fight to his enemy. Long out of print, these novels have become impossible to locate. It is Iron Brigade Publishing’s intent to reprint and make available all those soul-gripping stories. Arrowmaker, reprinted in 2000 was the first; The Black Rifle is the second.

The Black Rifle

Athough unrecognized by most historians, there is no more valiant tale with Pennsylvania's frontier lore than the raising and defending of Fort Robinson by the families of that name. For ten savage years, hostile Delaware and Shawnee warriors sought to overwhelm the wilderness stockade and drive all settlers from the Endless Hills of the Allegheny Mountains. No British regulars or even hastily gathered militias defended the log walls of Robinson's fort. The Robinson clan built and defended their wilderness stockade. Fire arrows flew and muskets thundered. Men and women were killed there, and others were carried into brutal captivity. Starvation and massacre threatened. Cabins burned and fields were torched. Other fled across the eastern mountains, but the Robinsons held. They fought until they won. This is their story.

Fort Robinson

In 1778, the powerful Iroquois confederacy was capable of fielding thousands of painted warriors. General George Washington's rebel army barely survived at Valley Forge, and the threat of Indian war paralyzed the frontiers. With their men gone to the army, defense of cabins and stockades against war parties streaming south from Iroquois lands would be impossible, and the menace of unbridled red massacre terrified even the hardiest. Two men of honored names chose the improbable task of entering the seething Iroquois confederacy to lend their presence and their skill, one at council, and the other deadly in combat, to hold back or split the Iroquois lest they fall upon the frontiers with fire and hatchet. Blue Moccasin, honored message bearer or the Delaware and Quehana, killer of Shawnee-both known to the Iroquois-journey to the heartland of the Iroquois Nations, to speak at council, to dissuade, to influence, to plead, and to demand peace and neutrality-also to fight when necessary.

Song of Blue Moccasin

The Galloways have owned their land for generations. Filled with walnut, oak, and even long dead but valuable chestnut trunks, the last acres of uncut virgin forest in private hands torment envious and evil men into murder and cover-up. 
Gabriel Galloway, called "Shooter" because of his prowess with a rifle, seeks justice in the only way possible -- via the gun. 
The villains, a wild, dangerous, and brutal family of loggers is challenged by a single youth. The law knows little and can do nothing. Even vigilante justice seems improbable as Pennsylvania's last Galloway seeks justice and vows to kill them all. 
Among the Galloway's a man's word is an oath beyond breaking, and Shooter Galloway means what he has vowed. This is his story.

Shooter Galloway

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Iron Brigade Armory

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