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Sniper on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knight's Cross

Door Albrecht Wacker

Categorie
WO II
Boeknummer
#332271-VE33
Titel
Sniper on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knight's Cross
Auteur
Wacker, Albrecht
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Barnsley : Pen and Sword Military
Jaar van uitgave
2016
ISBN10
1781590044
ISBN13
9781781590041
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, illustrated with some b/w photographs, 8vo.
Samenvatting
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 Knight's Cross. An Austrian conscript, after qualifying as a machine gunner he was drafted to the southern sector of the Russian Front in July 1942. Wounded at Voroshilovsk, he experimented with a Russian sniper-rifle while convalescing and so impressed his superiors with his proficiency that he was returned to the front on his regiment's only sniper specialist. In this sometimes harrowing memoir, Allerberger provides an excellent introduction to the commitment in field craft, discipline and routine required of the sniper, a man apart. There was no place for chivalry on the Russian Front. Away from the film cameras, no pr... (Lees verder)isoner survived long after surrendering. Russian snipers had used the illegal explosive bullet since 1941, and Hitler eventually authorized its issue in 1944. The result was a battlefield of horror. Allerberger was a cold-blooded killer, but few will find a place in their hearts for the soldiers of the Red Army against whom he fought.
Pagina's
177
Conditie
Goed — Very fine copy.
Prijs
€ 10,00

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