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

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Availability: In stock soon. Order now to get in line. First come, first served. Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.542147
EAN: 9781844153176
ISBN: 1844153177
Label: Pen and Sword
Manufacturer: Pen and Sword
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 196
Publication Date: 2006-03
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Studio: Pen and Sword
Sales Rank: 20005

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Josef "Sepp" Allerberger was the second most successful sniper of the German Wehrmacht and one of the few private soldiers to be honoured 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 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 authorised 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.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- A Nice Piece of Sniper Fantasy and War Fiction
I am writing as:

1)An experienced police officer who is formally trained to sniff out BS
2)A SWAT team member in a large city
3)An NRA Precision Rifle Instructor
4)A competitive rifle shooter
5)A guy who has operated in fog and friction

This book is almost certainly a work of fiction based on a large body of available knowledge, text, interviews, and publications about sniping during WWII. The author has clearly done his research and some of the weaponry, techniques, and tactics described in the book will be familiar to either actual snipers or readers of the aforementioned source material.

Being a fan and owner of WWII era German rifles, I am very well aware of their capabilities. I am also aware of their real-world limitations. ... Read More

Rating:

- Definately worth reading
Simply put this book is short and sweet. It does 'jump around' as per the memory of the elderly sniper recollecting these events decades after they took place, yet it flows and reads very well. The author did a solid job delving into the craft and mindset of marksmanship, pulling the reader furhter into such mentallity as the story progresses. Anyone with some sense of imagination will have no trouble creating fairly vivid mental images as the instances unfold. I found this to be an engaging and thought provoking read.

I highly reccomend this to anyone with even a vague interest in the Second World War and those who, like me, share the proud, militaristic spirit that so many of us German decendents naturally hold.

Rating:

- Terrible editorial review, but....
I am buying this book, out of interest in the subject...
But I must say the editorial review is terrible; the subject of the Eastern Front (as we call in the US) is complicated and there were all sorts of atrocities on both sides. The review Amazon has, seems awfully one-sided. My suspicion is that there was a lot of journalistic license taken in writing this one...
But I want to read it anyway. These veterans are almost gone now and their memoirs should be taken down before its too late...
I'll update after I read it. Giving it three stars bcause I have to include a rating to post anything!

Rating:

- excellent read but questionable veracity, perhaps we were duped
This book is so well written that I did not want to put it down, a comment at least one and probably many other readers have posted here. It has a stilted, blunt, visceral style that conveys the human condition much more effectively, realistically, and believably than Faulkner or Hemingway or any famous writer I can think of. That is why I am disappointed at the questionable veracity of the story. First, the subject's true identity is kept hidden. At this point in time it is probably not important to do such a thing and so I wonder what the real reason might be. Is there, or was there, any Sepp Allerberger at all? Second, you know very well that he could not have remembered the hundreds of intricate details that are described in the story. This must have been made up in an ad hoc fashion ... Read More

Rating:

- Excellent read for WWII
This book shows how brutal the Eastern front really was. This book at times is very gruesome but very necessary to show how this war was fought and how brutal war can be. Definitely worth while to pick up.

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