Red Army Sniper A Memoir on the Eastern Front in World War II
—— Red Army Sniper —— 146 ‘Zhenya, get down! They’ll shoot you any minute!’ they shouted at her from our trenches. ‘Duck into a ...
—— Our Zhenya —— 147 Maybe I have not seen everything. But nowhere have I read of any such monument... I mention this not only b ...
—— Red Army Sniper —— 148 But they took upon themselves the most responsible and difficult task during the blockade – that of ke ...
149 15. Back on Reconnaissance After becoming a sniper, I did not break my ties with my friends in reconnaissance. Even now we o ...
—— Red Army Sniper —— 150 On returning from their last mission, our scouts discovered the headquarters of a German unit. They di ...
—— Back on Reconnaissance —— 151 Everyone knew that our Marusia was a brave girl; a number of times she had carried wounded sold ...
—— Red Army Sniper —— 152 the enemy to establish your identity – in case you are wounded or killed. It only remained now to rehe ...
—— Back on Reconnaissance —— 153 again and pay no attention to the whistle of fragments from an exploding shell nearby. Likewise ...
—— Red Army Sniper —— 154 ‘A shell hole, damn it!’ I guessed. Well, it could be very handy at the moment. Little by little I cre ...
—— Back on Reconnaissance —— 155 All around it was silent; all I could hear was muffled footsteps in the distance – the sentry w ...
—— Red Army Sniper —— 156 sleeve of my tunic, so that it did not gleam. I squeezed the handle powerfully and got ready to crawl ...
—— Back on Reconnaissance —— 157 store staff documents. I easily opened the lid of the top box, but apparently to no purpose; i ...
—— Red Army Sniper —— 158 ‘Time to go! It’ll be harder getting out of here than getting in,’ I told Marusia, bearing in mind he ...
159 16. Brave Girls It was 1942. We had not put aside our weapons for almost a year. My sniper’s rifle had become my third eye a ...
—— Red Army Sniper —— 160 Hero of the Soviet Union. Also widely known was the renowned Sevastopol sniper, Hero of the Soviet Uni ...
—— Brave Girls —— 161 bullets tightly round the bull’s eye. And the first time she went out ‘hunting’, she wiped out two Nazis a ...
—— Red Army Sniper —— 162 Regimental commissar Ivan Ilyich Agashin promised to recommend me for Party membership. He called me i ...
—— Brave Girls —— 163 after the other, and, after each one, green fragments splashed onto the ground. ‘There you are!’ said Marg ...
164 17. Guests of the Kirov Workers On 1 May 1942, Ivan Dobrik and I were summoned to divisional headquarters. Back in the regim ...
—— Guests of the Kirov Workers —— 165 We had two hours to walk the four kilometres separating the divisional command post from t ...
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