9781781590041-1781590044-Sniper on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knight’s Cross

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

ISBN-13: 9781781590041
ISBN-10: 1781590044
Edition: Reprint
Author: Albrecht Wacker
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
Format: Paperback 192 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781781590041
ISBN-10: 1781590044
Edition: Reprint
Author: Albrecht Wacker
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
Format: Paperback 192 pages

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Sniper on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knight’s Cross (ISBN-13: 9781781590041 and ISBN-10: 1781590044), written by authors Albrecht Wacker, was published by Pen and Sword Military in 2016. With an overall rating of 4.4 stars, it's a notable title among other United States (Historical, Germany, European History, Romania, Aviation, Military History, Intelligence & Espionage, World War II) books. You can easily purchase or rent Sniper on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knight’s Cross (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used United States books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $3.89.

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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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