The author of this concise guide to unarmed combat and selfdefence is a legend. W. E. Fairbairn 18851960 spent over thirty years in the tough environment of the Riot Squads of Chinaamprsquos Shanghai Municipal Police. In order to lower levels of Police mortality at the hands of Chinese Tongs he studied ancient Chinese and Japanese martial arts including Jujitsu and was the first foreigner to be awarded a black belt in the discipline. He developed his own system which he called amplsquoDefenduamprsquo. At the outbreak of the Second World War he was recruited by Britainamprsquos Special Operations Executive as an Instructor in unarmed combat and expounded the deadly mysteries of attack and defence to scores ofampnbsp trainee agents about to be dropped into occupied Europe. His methods were approved and officially adopted throughout the British army. Fairbairn also developed weapons and defence aids such as bullet proof vests. He is best known as the coinventor of the famous SykesFairbairn knife. In this book heampnbsp expounds his distilled experience of unarmed combat. Fully illustrated it shows how to deliver deadly blows with hand fist knee and boot wrist bear and strangle holds and how to break themampnbsp how to throw an enemy and how to break their backs how to disarm a pistolwielding attacker and securing a prisoner. The book also contains a chapter on the use of the rifle in close combat by Captain P. N. Walbridge.