How To Fight Tough

This book is respectfully dedicated to American young men everywhere - young men who are fighting in every branch of the country's armed service to preserve free institutions against the onslaught of the axis nations. Today, in a world fighting a war to the death 'Fight Tough' must be the creed of every good soldier. It is in the hope of helping the individual American fighter in uniform attain that state of physical preparation that this book was written with the consent and the approval of the United States coast guard.
Paladin Press is pleased to present this rare reprint of a little-known hand-to-hand combat classic. At the outset of World War II, boxing heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey was appointed as a lieutenant in the U.S. Coast Guard and given the job of director of physical fitness. His orders: "Make 'em tough!" His task: to teach rookie Coast Guardsmen how to fight down and dirty in the face of the very real threat of enemy troops infiltrating American shores. Get in the ring with "the Manassa Mauler" as he gives 18 fully illustrated lessons in the art of bashing and brawling on the battlefield, including Subduing an Armed Enemy, The Unbreakable Strangle, Beating the Punch, Hammering Your Way Out of a Stranglehold, The Belt Trick, Fooling the Smart Knife Man, Turning the Tables with a Bayonet and Breaking a Standoff. All students of nasty close-quarters combat in the tradition of Sykes, Fairbairn, Applegate and other giants of the World War II era will thoroughly enjoy this fascinating piece of CQB history.