Nacido en los Urales y habituado a la caza, Vassili Záitsev era un tirador excepcional, como lo demostró en la batalla de Stalingrado, donde, según sus propias palabras, "maté a 242 alemanes, incluyendo más de diez tiradores enemigos". Este libro es el relato personal de su experiencia en la guerra, sin las manipulaciones con que la falseó el cine en "Enemigo a las puertas". Lo que da un valor excepcional a este relato es el hecho de que nos ofrece el testimonio de alguien que vivió personalmente el salvajismo de la que ha sido considerada como la batalla más sangrienta de la historia: una "guerra de ratas" entre las ruinas, donde la esperanza de vida de un nuevo combatiente no pasaba de las 24 horas, y que acabó cobrándose de tres a cuatro millones de bajas. Las Notas de un francotirador de Záitsev, un libro que consigue transmitirnos la experiencia del combate tal como la vive un soldado, es un auténtico clásico de la literatura de guerra.
A top Russian intelligence agent has defected to the West and the only man with whom he will speak is Kyle Swanson, who busted him out of the U.S. Marine Corps Scout/Sniper School years ago.
The contributors include Charles Henderson writing on the myth of Major Koenig, Mark Spicer on Harry Furness, Martin Pegler on Vassili Zaitsev, Charles Strasser on Pavlichenko, Adrian Gilbert on Sepp Allerberger, Leroy Thompson on Captain C ...
In response, the British army hit back with their own division of snipers. Arnold Crabtree was a young Mill Worker from Rochdale, England, who became a war hero at 21. This is his story.*Ideal for readers with a 'General Interest' in WW1.
From the backwoods riflemen of the American Revolution and trench sharpshooters of World War I to Marine snipers in the jungles of Vietnam and today's top shooters in the mountains of Afghanistan, "KILL SHOT" details the heroic actions of ...
This is a gritty, no-holds-barred behind-the-scenes look at life on the front line from an elite SAS sniper.'an honest, insider's account of the dark arts of sniping and special forces.'HERALD SUN
This is a story about one such Marine sniper team, in 1964/65 "Delta-Two- Foxtrot" who helped blazed the trail, gave their best, who hunted the enemy in its own back yard, took out assigned targets without the Viet Cong knowing they were ...
"Yevgeni Nikolaev was one of Russia's leading snipers of World War II and his memoir provides and unparalleled account of front-line action in crucial theaters of war.
Told with a distinguished military historian's attention to authenticity and the dramatic imagination of a natural storyteller, Sasser's The 100th Kill is a page-turning novel of a fascinating, rarely glimpsed side of the Vietnam War.
A brutal warrior but a gentle father and husband, Chris Kyle led the life of an American hero.
Not only perfect for action and thriller fans, this tantalizing novel will fit wonderfully in any casual reader's collection. A page turner in every sense of the phrase, this mesmerizing story proves easy to pick up and hard to put down.