Voices of Russian Snipers by Artem Drabkin, John Walter instant download

Voices of Russian Snipers by Artem Drabkin, John Walter instant download

About the Author: Artem Drabkin is an author and historian.
John Walter, born in Glasgow in 1951, is among the world’s most prolific writers on small arms-author of seventy books, translated into more than a dozen languages. Walter has worked with edged weapons, bladed tools, firearms, railway locomotives, warships, scientific instruments and even heraldry. Among his published works have been several studies of the Luger pistol; four editions of Rifles of the World; The Airgun Book; The Rifle Story and The Handgun Story; Guns of the Elite and its current successor, Guns of the Elite Forces; The German Rifle; and The Greenhill Dictionary of Guns and Gunmakers.
‘Wiped out three Nazis in a shallow trench. But only got out by a miracle. The Germans apparently guessed where my lair was and unleashed a hurricane of mortar fire ... the company had as good as buried me. Somebody saw a direct mortar hit on my lair.’ - Fyodor Dyachenko
‘The German snipers on the other side also engaged in stalking, especially stalking us women. They had no female snipers, just men’ - Antonina Kotlyarova
‘Dreadful death cries could be heard from the German trenches, where the enemy were bayonetting those of our wounded who had remained behind there’ - Klavdia Kalugina
‘Before firing I managed to get a good look at him through my sights. He was a young officer. He seemed to be looking straight at me and I shot him. But it was a human being! Then my feelings dulled and I went on killing the way we were supposed to’ - Antonina Kotlyarova
‘I lay down on the ground, pressed my cheek close to the stock, took aim at the target and remembered the lieutenant’s words: “Make sure your heart is behind every bullet... Believe in your shot” - Pyotr Belyakov
‘When we learnt on May 9th that the war was over, our joy knew no bounds [...] I felt enormous relief when I heard the news of victory - now I wouldn’t need to kill anymore’ - Maria Bondarenko
With a wealth of first-hand testimonies, collected by Artem Drabkin,