Sniper on the Eastern Front by Albrecht Wacker

Sniper on the Eastern Front by Albrecht Wacker

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.

"..a very unique story and experience worth telling of an Eastern Front Sniper."--Sniper Central

Albrecht Wacker is an author and historian.

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ISBN 13	9781781590041
ISBN 10	1781590044
Title	Sniper on the Eastern Front
Author	Albrecht Wacker
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Year published	2012-05-17
Number of pages	192
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