title: Warfare in Woods and Forests
author:  Anthony Clayton 
description: Any military history collection needs this fine survey. (<i>Midwest Book Review</i>)
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  The Interlopers
  
  
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  # The Interlopers
  
  
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  IN A FOREST of mixed growth somewhere on the eastern spurs of the
  
  
  Karpathians, a man stood one winter night watching and listening, as
  
  
  though he waited for some beast of the woods to come within the range
  
  
  of his vision, and, later, of his rifle. But the game for whose
  
  
  presence he kept so keen an outlook was none that figured in the
  
  
  sportsman's calendar as lawful and proper for the chase; Ulrich von
  
  
  Gradwitz patrolled the dark forest in quest of a human enemy.
  
  
  The forest lands of Gradwitz were of wide extent and well stocked
  
  
  with game; the narrow strip of precipitous woodland that lay on its
  
  
  outskirt was not remarkable for the game it harboured or the shooting
  
  
  it afforded, but it was the most jealously guarded of all its owner's
  
  
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