The Sojourn

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The author wishes to thank the following for their generous help in the writing of this story: Lt. Col. Guy Bartle-Jones, Warren Cook, Paul Cornish (firearms curator, Imperial War Museum, London), Jared Crawford, Royal Hansen, Faith Johnson, Matthew Meyer, Renata Meyer, Gianluigi Panozzo, Virág Sárdí, Michael Silitch, and Claudio Siniscalco. Special thanks to Erika Goldman, Betsy Lerner, and as always, Amelia Dunlop, for her unwavering support.

Also, a debt of gratitude is due to the following writers and their work: George H. Cassar, The Forgotten Front: The British Campaign in Italy 1917–1918; Isabel Fonseca, Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey; Martin Pegler, Out of Nowhere: A History of the Military Sniper; John R. Schindler, Isonzo: The Forgotten Sacrifice of the Great War; Peter R. Senich, The German Sniper 1914–1945; and Jan F. Triska, The Great War’s Forgotten Front.