Bob Kasper's Individual Close Combat Volumes 1 & 2

After World War II, training in hand-to-hand combat stopped abruptly, as
interest in the Eastern martial arts blossomed. Convinced that these
close-quarter techniques, which had been forged in the streets of
Shanghai, China, and tempered in the Pacific and European theaters of
war, represented the true essence of close combat, and concerned that
these skills would be lost forever, a handful of men decided to preserve
this knowledge. One of these men was Bob Kasper.

A student of
the late Charles Nelson, Bob Kasper wrote these two volumes of
individual close-combat techniques for his students but never published
them. The first volume is on principles and tactics while the second
volume concentrates on stance and movement. By offering these two
volumes to the public for the very first time, Paladin is not only
helping to preserve the techniques designed and battle-field tested by
World War II combatives pioneers - a task that Kasper dedicated much of
his life to - it is also preserving the work of another close-combat
legend, Bob Kasper. This book contains an exclusive new foreword by
Kelly McCann, who trained in combatives and knife fighting with Kasper.