Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Brooks, Geoffrey.

Description

1. 196 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

1. "This book is a rare, first-hand account by a ruthlessly efficient German sniper of life and death during the bitter conflict that followed the Nazi invasion of Russia. Josef 'Sepp' Allerberger was an Austrian conscript who qualified as a Wehrmacht machine gunner and was drafted to the southern sector of the Front in July 1942 ... This harrowing and graphic memoir provides a vivid insight into the atrocious conditions and brutal cruelty of this campaign. There was, we learn, no place for chivalry and few prisoners survived long after capture. Allerberger relates the cunning, discipline, and fieldcraft that not only saw him survive during the near constant action, but made him such a ruthless assassin"--Dust jacket.

Subject

1. Allerberger, Josef
2. Allerberger, Sepp, 1924-2010
3. Germany. Gebirgsjäger-Regiment 144
4. Germany. Heer > Biography
5. 1939-1945
6. Geschichte 1943-1945
7. Snipers > Germany > Biography
8. World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Russia (Federation)
9. World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, German
10. World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Soviet Union
11. Soldiers > Germany > Biography

Genre/Form

1. Biographies
2. Personal narratives – German

Contents

1. Machine-gunner at the Ukraine Front, September 1943 -- A sniper emerges -- A taste of trench warfare at Nikopol -- More horrors on the Road to Ingulez -- Desperate defence at Bakalov : killing horses, cossacks, women snipers, and our own -- Balmy days on the Dniester -- Respite : sniper training at Judenburg, Summer 1944 -- Rumania, August 1944 : the stab in the back -- Into Hungary : the Soviet Liberators as I came to know them -- Partisans at the saw-mill : I win the Knights Cross -- The last ditch : flying courts and the long trudge home.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Language (note)

1. Translated from the German.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain