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Sniper on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knights Cross
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A biography of the second most successful sniper of the German Wehrmacht and one of the few private soldiers to be honored with the Knights Cross award.
An Austrian conscript who qualified as a Wehrmacht machine gunner, Josef “Sepp” Allerberger 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 as his regiment’s only sniper specialist.
This sometimes-harrowing account provides an excellent introduction to the commitment in fieldcraft, 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.
“It is a great read and covers just about everything you would want to know about Allerberger, the weapons, techniques and employment of German snipers on the Eastern Front in WWII but does it in a manner and narrative that is never boring and is guaranteed to hold your interest.” —Argunners Magazine
“A very unique story and experience worth telling of an Eastern Front Sniper.” —Sniper Central
An Austrian conscript who qualified as a Wehrmacht machine gunner, Josef “Sepp” Allerberger 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 as his regiment’s only sniper specialist.
This sometimes-harrowing account provides an excellent introduction to the commitment in fieldcraft, 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.
“It is a great read and covers just about everything you would want to know about Allerberger, the weapons, techniques and employment of German snipers on the Eastern Front in WWII but does it in a manner and narrative that is never boring and is guaranteed to hold your interest.” —Argunners Magazine
“A very unique story and experience worth telling of an Eastern Front Sniper.” —Sniper Central
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5One of the grimmest and brutal descriptions of real war I have read. If you do not want to read about real war wounds, torture and death then do not read this book.This story follows one German soldier on the Eastern front who became one of WWII's best snipers. Typical of most young men in war, he was doing what his country ask and thought he would find adventure. Instead he found that he was just being pushed into the meat grinder between to nations who would fight until they ran out of bodies. The only way to stay alive was to win. Germany's Eastern defeat was decided before he killed his first Russian.Very interesting book. Lots of new info I had not encountered before. It surprised me that a very modern Germany was virtually without snipers and only created them in response to the Soviets. Early German snipers used captured Soviet sniper rifles because they had scopes.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent first hand account of a German sniper on the East Front. Highly recommend.
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