Snipers of Stalingrad

They didn’t attend special schools where experienced instructors would teach them sniper tactics—besides, such schools in the Red Army of 1942 practically didn’t exist. They learned the sniper profession right at the front, in the fiery hell of Stalingrad, where our troops, pressed up against the Volga, bled out in months-long urban fighting. Every day they risked their lives, knocking out German officers and machine-gun crews, radio operators and artillery observers, preventing Hitler’s men from lifting their heads. They hunted the enemy, while the enemy hunted them—answering every sniper shot with a hurricane of mortar, artillery, “Nebelwerfer” and MG fire. And the chances of surviving that meat grinder for Stalingrad snipers were even less than for the penal troops…

A NEW novel by the author of bestsellers “The Commander of a Penal Company,” “Penal Man, Tankist, Suicide Bomber,” and “Don’t Miss, Sniper!” A decisive battle of the Great Patriotic War through the sights! Soviet snipers versus German Scharfschütze! Deadly duels in the blood-soaked hell of Stalingrad!