Deadly Accuracy: Top 5 Snipers of World War 2
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Eastern Front Sniper: The Life of Matthäus Hetzenauer (Greenhill Sniper Library)
- ASIN: 1784382167
- ISBN: 1784382167
- Brand: PEN SWORD BOOKS
- Manufacturer: Greenhill Books
Eastern Front Sniper is a long overdue and comprehensive biography of one of World War II’s most accomplished snipers.Mathäus Hetzenauer, the son of a Tyrolean peasant family, was born in December 1924\. He was drafted into the Mountain Reserve Battalian 140 at the age of 18 but discharged five month’s later.He received a new draft notice in J... [Read More]
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To Hell and Back
- ASIN: 0805070869
- ISBN: 0805070869
- Brand: Holt McDougal
- Manufacturer: Holt Paperbacks
The classic bestselling war memoir by the most decorated American soldier in World War II, back in print in a trade paperbackOriginally published in 1949, To Hell and Back was a smash bestseller for fourteen weeks and later became a major motion picture starring Audie Murphy as himself. More than fifty years later, this classic wartime memoir is ju... [Read More]
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Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad
- ASIN: B013S434Y8
- Manufacturer: Open Road Media
A New York Times bestseller that brings to life one of the bloodiest battles of World War II—and the beginning of the end of the Third Reich. On August 5, 1942, giant pillars of dust rose over the Russian steppe, marking the advance of the 6th Army, an elite German combat unit dispatched by Hitler to capture the industrial city of Stalingrad and ... [Read More]
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Sniper on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knight's Cross
- ASIN: B005586WRW
- Manufacturer: Pen and Sword Military
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 experim... [Read More]
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Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943
- ASIN: 0140284583
- ISBN: 9780140284584
- Brand: Penguin Books
- Manufacturer: Penguin Books
The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also changed the face of modern warfare. From Antony Beevor, the internationally bestselling author of D-Day and The Battle of Arnhem.In August 1942, Hitler's huge Sixth Army reached the city that bore Stalin's name. In the five-month siege that followed, ... [Read More]
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Avenging Angels: Young Women of the Soviet Union's WWII Sniper Corps
- ASIN: 168144285X
- ISBN: 168144285X
- Brand: QUERCUS UK
- Manufacturer: MacLehose Press
A gripping account of the Soviet female sniper corps of WWII Beginning in 1942, with the Eastern Front having claimed the lives of several million Soviet soldiers, Stalin's Red Army began drafting tens of thousands of women, most of them in their teens or early twenties, to defend against the Nazi invasion. Some volunteered, but most were given no ... [Read More]
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A Motherland's Daughter, A Fatherland's Son: A WWII Novel
- ASIN: B079YF1BD9
Winner of the International Book Award contest Readers' Favorite in the Historical Fiction category (2018)Poland, 1939. A country, torn by the occupation of two unlikely allies - Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. On the border of this newly divided territory, a young Wehrmacht Unteroffizier, Werner and a Soviet Military Interpreter, Kira meet and ... [Read More]
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Red Blood, Black Sand: Fighting Alongside John Basilone from Boot Camp to Iwo Jima
- ASIN: B0072NWKKG
- Manufacturer: Dutton Caliber
A story of heroism, friendship, and courage in World War 2—as seen in the award-winning HBO miniseries The Pacific.In 1944, the U.S. Marines were building the 5th Marine Division—also known as “The Spearhead”—in preparation for the invasion of the small, Japanese-held island of Iwo Jima...When Chuck Tatum began Marine boot camp, he was ju... [Read More]
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A Writer at War: A Soviet Journalist with the Red Army, 1941-1945
- ASIN: 0307275337
- ISBN: 0307275337
- Brand: Grossman, Vasilii Semenovich/ Beevor, Antony (EDT)/ Vinogradova, Luba (EDT)
- Manufacturer: Vintage
When the Germans invaded Russia in 1941, Vasily Grossman became a special correspondent for the Red Star, the Soviet Army's newspaper, and reported from the frontlines of the war. A Writer at War depicts in vivid detail the crushing conditions on the Eastern Front, and the lives and deaths of soldiers and civilians alike. Witnessing some of the mos... [Read More]
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Sniper Ace
- ASIN: B009H93LWY
- Manufacturer: Frontline Books
Throughout World War II, German snipers were obliged to carry a ’Scharfshützen Buch’ which recorded every kill. Each success noted had to be verified by a witness and signed by a superior officer.The journal of Sutkus is one of only a few such books to have survived the war. It records more than 200 kills, placing him as one of the war’s m... [Read More]
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Brave Men
- ASIN: 0803287682
- ISBN: 0803287682
- Manufacturer: Bison Books
Europe was in the throes of World War II, and when America joined the fighting, Ernie Pyle went along. Long before television beamed daily images of combat into our living rooms, Pyle’s on-the-spot reporting gave the American public a firsthand view of what war was like for the boys on the front. Pyle followed the soldiers into the trenches, batt... [Read More]
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Panzer Gunner: From My Native Canada to the German Osfront and Back. In Action with 25th Panzer Regiment, 7th Panzer Division 1944-45
- ASIN: B007QUY4KO
- Manufacturer: Helion and Company
There are few memoirs available of German Panzer crews that focus on the climactic last 12 months of the war on the Eastern Front, 1944-45. What makes Bruno Friesen's account virtually unique is his family background: his parents came from a German-speaking Mennonite community in Ukraine, and were to all intents and purposes culturally German. To m... [Read More]
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The Forgotten VCs: The Victoria Crosses of the War in the Far East During WW2
- ASIN: 1526717972
- ISBN: 1526717972
- Manufacturer: Frontline Books
Fought amid the most challenging terrain of any theater during the Second World War, the campaign in the Far East saw heroic actions against the unyielding Japanese that resulted in the awarding of more than forty Victoria Crosses – greater than a fifth of all the VCs of the war.Such actions include that of Major Frank Blaker, whose battalion of ... [Read More]
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War of the Rats: A Novel
- ASIN: B0030P1WIQ
- Manufacturer: Bantam
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When the Elephants Dance
- ASIN: 0142002887
- ISBN: 0142002887
- Manufacturer: Penguin Books
“Papa explains the war like this: ‘When the elephants dance, the chickens must be careful.’ The great beasts, as they circle one another, shaking the trees and trumpeting loudly, are the Amerikanos and the Japanese as they fight. And our Philippine Islands? We are the small chickens.”Once in a great while comes a storyteller who can illumin... [Read More]
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Sniper on the Eastern Front - The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger Knights Cross
- ASIN: B002G59OKO
- ISBN: 1844153177
- Manufacturer: Pen & Sword
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Shifty's War: The Authorized Biography of Sergeant Darrell "Shifty" Powers, the Legendary Shar pshooter from the Band of Brothers
- ASIN: 0425247376
- ISBN: 0425247376
- Brand: Berkley Caliber
- Manufacturer: Dutton Caliber
The Authorized Biography of Sergeant Darrell “Shifty” Powers, the Legendary Sharpshooter from the Band of Brothers.As a boy growing up in the remote mining town of Clinchco, Virginia, Darrell “Shifty” Powers’s goal was to become the best rifle shot he could be. His father trained him to listen to the woods, to “see” without his eyes. ... [Read More]
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SIMO HÄYHÄ: The Man from Rautajärvi aka The White Death (Best Snipers Series Book 3)
- ASIN: B00Y7F0RES
- Manufacturer: Spyglass Publications
This short story about one of the most unusual snipers in the history of sniping describes Finnish sniper Simo Häyhä and his activities during the 100-day Winter War (1939-1940) when the Russian Red Army invaded Finland. World War II had started and Russia wanted a buffer country against a German invasion. Tiny Finland said she was neutral. So Ru... [Read More]
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The Knife
- ASIN: B00L9B7YX0
- Manufacturer: Blue Rider Press
A powerful, dark, and morally provocative debut novel about a U.S. Special Forces unit operating in the Middle East, written by a former soldier—No Easy Day meets Redeployment… It’s hot and getting hotter this summer in Afghanipakiraqistan—the preferred name for the ambiguous stretch of the world where the U.S. Special Forces operate with l... [Read More]
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Finland at War: The Winter War 1939-40
- ASIN: 147282718X
- ISBN: 147282718X
- Manufacturer: Osprey Publishing
The story of the "Winter War" between Finland and Soviet Russia is a dramatic David versus Goliath encounter. When close to half a million Soviet troops poured into Finland in 1939 it was expected that Finnish defenses would collapse in a matter of weeks. But they held firm. The Finns not only survived the initial attacks but succeeded in inflictin... [Read More]
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