SNIPER ON THE EASTERN FRONT by Albrecht Wacker ( 9781781590041 )

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Title:

SNIPER ON THE EASTERN FRONT

By:

Albrecht Wacker

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Paperback

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1781590044

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9781781590041

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Publisher:

PEN & SWORD BOOKS LTD

Pub. date:

17 May, 2012

Pages:

192

Description:

Josef Sepp Allerberger was the second most successful sniper of the German Wehrmacht and one of the few private soldiers to be honored with the award of the Knights Cross.

Synopsis:

This book is a rare first-hand account by a ruthlessly efficient German sniper of life and death during the bitter conflict that followed the Nazi invasion of Russia. Josef 'Sepp' Allerberger was an Austrian conscript who qualified as a Wehrmacht machine-gunner and was drafted to the Southern sector of the Front in July 1942.After being wounded at Voroshilovsk, he experimented successfully with a captured Russian sniper-rifle whileconvalescing and returned to his unit as his regiment's only sniper specialist. In the gruelling months that followed, as the German Army was forced to withdraw under almost constant pressure from the Russians, Allerberger became the second most successful German sniper and one of the very few private soldiers to be awarded the coveted Knights Cross.This harrowing and graphic memoir provides a vivid insight to the atrocious conditions and brutal cruelty of this campaign. There was, we learn, no place for chivalry and few prisoners survived long after capture. Allerberger relates the cunning, discipline and fieldcraft that not only saw him survive during the near constant action but made him such a relentless assassin.

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illustrations (black and white)

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Some other items by this author:

GERMAN SNIPER RIFLES (HB)

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SNIPER ON THE EASTERN FRONT (HB)

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