Red Army Sniper A Memoir on the Eastern Front in World War II

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Red Army Sniper ...

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Red Army Sniper A Memoir of the Eastern Front in World War II Yevgeni Nikolaev Foreword by Albrecht Wacker Translation by David ...

Eastern Front Sniper This edition published in 2017 by Greenhill Books, c/o Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 47 Church Street, Barnsle ...

Contents Preface by Dina Nikolaeva ix ...

From the Author Foreword by Albrecht Wacker xi Lieutenant Butorin Has an Idea I Become a Sniper My First Partner ...

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Yevgeni Nikolaev, as a decorated veteran in the 1980s. ...

ix Preface This book is not the work of a writer. The author was a sniper – a role that he came into during the Second World War ...

—— Red Army Sniper —— x new audience and loses the predictability and ordinariness that usually accompany such literature in Rus ...

xi Foreword Yevgeni Nikolaev was a member of the Soviet Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del (NKVD – the People’s Commissariat o ...

—— Red Army Sniper —— xii The NKVD is repeatedly presented as a harmless troop of angelic moral heroes, when in reality, the age ...

—— Foreword —— xiii comforts which could distract their attention from their targets. Nikolaev’s foxhole was his home amid star ...

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Dedicated to the radiant memory of my mother, Anna Lukinichna Nikolaeva, who brought me up to be the man I became and am, and it ...

Another war Another blockade... But perhaps we can forget about them? I sometimes hear: ‘Don’t, Don’t aggravate old wounds. For ...

5 From the Author Inspired and supported by that great wartime writer and poet Konstantin Simonov, I  have summoned up the coura ...