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Sniper on the Eastern Front
The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger - Knights Cross
Albrecht Wacker
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.
Hardcover, 6 1/4 x 9 1/4, 196 pages, illustrated.
$34.95
The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger - Knights Cross
Albrecht Wacker
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.
Hardcover, 6 1/4 x 9 1/4, 196 pages, illustrated.
$34.95
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