{"id":21284,"date":"2017-05-21T07:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/21\/book-review-the-lee-enfield-by-ian-skennerton\/"},"modified":"2017-05-21T07:00:02","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T12:00:02","slug":"book-review-the-lee-enfield-by-ian-skennerton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/21\/book-review-the-lee-enfield-by-ian-skennerton\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review &#8211; The Lee Enfield, by Ian Skennerton"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_ogsryE01aY?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Available from Amazon: <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2qBntgB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/amzn.to\/2qBntgB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ian Skennerton is a leading authority on British rifles, having written extensively on Sniders, Martinis, Enfields, and more. This specific book, &#8220;The Lee Enfield&#8221; is the most recent iteration of his compendium of Lee-Enfield information, printed in 2007 (previous versions were &#8220;The Lee Enfield Story&#8221; of the 1980s and &#8220;The British Service Lee&#8221; of the 90s). It is an absolute wealth of information, including a large amount of original British military documents. Skennerton covers a huge array of developmental and experimental versions of the Enfield as well as the standard production models (including American, Canadian, Australian, and Indian production).<\/p>\n<p>Strange WW1 modifications and accessories, grenade launchers, snipers, lightweight guns, carbines, long rifles, semiautomatic conversions, you name it &#8211; it&#8217;s all here. Unfortunately, the organization and editing leaves a lot to be desired, in my opinion. It is a book that looks magnificent when idly flipped through, but can be frustrating to use to understand the history of a gun or guns. The text often jumps from one subject to another, forcing the reader to piece together elements from different sections to figure out a coherent story. <\/p>\n<p>That said, it remains an indispensable book for the Enfield enthusiast, as it has a ton of information not found elsewhere. I hope that if a new revision or edition is ever produced, Mr. Skennerton will employ the services of a ruthless editor to help him form the raw information into a more navigable history.<\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merchandise! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy Forgotten Weapons, check out its sister channel, InRangeTV! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/InRangeTVShow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/InRangeTVShow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Available from Amazon: http:\/\/amzn.to\/2qBntgB Ian Skennerton is a leading authority on British rifles, having written extensively on Sniders, Martinis, Enfields, and more. This specific book, &#8220;The Lee Enfield&#8221; is the most recent iteration of his compendium of Lee-Enfield information, printed in 2007 (previous versions were &#8220;The Lee Enfield Story&#8221; of the 1980s and &#8220;The British&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/21\/book-review-the-lee-enfield-by-ian-skennerton\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Book Review &#8211; The Lee Enfield, by Ian Skennerton<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":21285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}