Red Army Sniper A Memoir on the Eastern Front in World War II
106 11. The Snipers’ Rally On 22 February 1942, with my invitation in my pocket, I managed to walk by myself from the hospital t ...
—— The Snipers’ Rally —— 107 sternly, looking at the invitation. ‘And your papers?’ ‘I have no papers, just this... I’m from the ...
—— Red Army Sniper —— 108 ‘Take a look. It really is our Yevgeni! You mean he’s alive?’ And Ivan Karpov squeezed me with all his ...
—— The Snipers’ Rally —— 109 Kuznetsov noted its significance during the harsh times of the present day: a time of war against N ...
—— Red Army Sniper —— 110 has dispatched 190 Nazi troops and officers to the next world. The soldiers on our front must learn fr ...
—— The Snipers’ Rally —— 111 launching military competition for extermination of the German invaders, the exemplary fulfilment o ...
—— Red Army Sniper —— 112 I congratulated my friends and helped them to attach the orders to their tunics. Then I suddenly hea ...
—— The Snipers’ Rally —— 113 eyes closed, thought about it, calmed down a bit, and the words I needed came of their own accord. ...
—— Red Army Sniper —— 114 ‘Well, Yevgeni, make yourself at home. This bed here’s free,’ the lads told me. ‘We’ll spend the night ...
—— The Snipers’ Rally —— 115 Among the performers, who had been recruited from front line units, I spotted some of our own, wh ...
—— Red Army Sniper —— 116 only just been created in besieged Leningrad. And she repeated every song twice, in response to calls ...
—— The Snipers’ Rally —— 117 double the official rations for each of us. All this was neatly set out and superbly served. When w ...
—— Red Army Sniper —— 118 ‘Klavdia Ivanovna, you have sung almost everything but my favourite song. Could you please sing ‘Mothe ...
—— The Snipers’ Rally —— 119 of the Soviet Union. We got talking. And Vladimir Pchelintsev told me a lot about himself. He had b ...
—— Red Army Sniper —— 120 his rifle so that his arms would not get so tired. He would study the enemy defences thoroughly down t ...
121 12. Back in the Regiment Only three days had passed since the frontline gathering, but Comrade Zhdanov’s call: ‘To ensure t ...
—— Red Army Sniper —— 122 ‘Well, show the colonel and me your documents – the hospital certification. Have you got them with you ...
—— Back in the Regiment —— 123 own. Only I was idle; I made up for lost sleep and food and read voraciously. I read everything ...
—— Red Army Sniper —— 124 the trenches and then refitting all the firing positions and dugouts. Additional foxholes were dug and ...
—— Back in the Regiment —— 125 communication routes and firing positions in the platoon’s defences were always in an exemplary c ...
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