One of the most highly sought volumes in the library of legendary hand-to-hand combat manuals is
finally available from Paladin Press. W.E. Fairbairn's Scientific Self-Defence, published in 1931
as a slightly modified reprint of Defendu (1926), outlines the brutally effective close-quarters
combat program developed during Fairbairn's renowned service with the Shanghai Municipal Police.
Fairbairn's straightforward techniques for defending against various holds, dealing with assailants
armed with guns or knives, applying truly effective holds and throws, using the club and walking
stick for self-defense, and other areas of close-in fighting have had an extraordinary influence on
the development of the combat arts. His immense impact on generations of fighting men . from an elite
cadre of instructors who trained soldiers in realistic hand-to-hand combat during World War II to
today's practitioners of hard-core self-defense . can now be studied directly from the source in
this quality reprint edition of Scientific Self-Defence.

Captain W.E. Fairbairn taught unarmed combat to the famed British Commandos and the U.S. armed forces
during World War II. Before the war he served as assistant commissioner of the Shanghai Police Force.
He was the inventor of the Fairbairn Commando Knife and the author of the classics Get Tough and
Shooting to Live.

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