SNIPER ON THE EASTERN FRONT: THE MEMOIRS OF SEPP ALLERBERGER, KNIGHTS CROSS; ED. BY GEOFFREY BROOKS.
Publisher: PEN & SWORD
Published: 2008-06-15
Place of publication: BARNSLEY
Language: und; eng
Number of pages: 196
Description: "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 ... This harrowing and graphic memoir provides a vivid insight into 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 ruthless assassin"--Dust jacket.