From: henry999@eircom.net   
      
   Martha Bridegam  wrote:   
      
   ...a comprehensive review of Orwell's wound; for which, thanks.   
      
   > Here's a question for any fellow Orwell anoraks who may be reading:   
      
   I just have one, small, anorakish quibble.   
      
   > Orwell's POUM commander and friend Georges Kopp was a witness to Orwell's   
   > condition after Orwell was wounded. Twenty days after the injury, in a   
   > report to Orwell's brother-in-law Dr. Laurence O'Shaughnessy, Kopp   
   > described the shot as having been fired from a long distance: "a normal 7   
   > mm bore, copper-plated spanish Mauser bullet, shot from a distance of some   
   > 175 yards. At this range, it still had a velocity of some 600 feet per   
   > second and a cauterising temperature..."   
      
   Did Kopp actually use the words 'from a long distance', or is that your   
   interpretation of 'a distance of some 175 yards'? Because it's really   
   not, you know, much of a distance at all, even for a standard-issue   
   infantry rifle with open sights.   
      
   cheers,   
      
   Henry   
      
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