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Sniper on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knights Cross - Softcover

Wacker, Albrecht

 
9781781590041: Sniper on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knights Cross
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1781590044 ISBN 13: 9781781590041
Verlag: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

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 prisoner 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.

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Albrecht Wacker is an author and historian.

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Verlag
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1781590044
ISBN 13 
9781781590041
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
178
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