| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 11 min.)) : digital |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Nigel Gair. |
| Summary |
Josef "Sepp" Allerberger was the second most successful sniper of the German Wehrmacht and one of the few private soldiers to be honored with the award of the Knight's Cross. An Austrian conscript, after qualifying as a machine gunner he was drafted to the southern sector of the Russian Front in July 1942. Wounded at Voroshilovsk, he experimented with a Russian sniper-rifle while convalescing and so impressed his superiors with his proficiency that he was returned to the front on his regiment's only sniper specialist. In this sometimes harrowing memoir, Allerberger provides an excellent introduction to the commitment in field craft, discipline and routine required of the sniper, a man apart. There was no place for chivalry on the Russian Front. Away from the film cameras, no prisoner survived long after surrendering. Russian snipers had used the illegal explosive bullet since 1941, and Hitler eventually authorized its issue in 1944. The result was a battlefield of horror. Allerberger was a cold-blooded killer, but few will find a place in their hearts for the soldiers of the Red Army against whom he fought. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Allerberger, Sepp, 1924-2010.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Soviet Union.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, German.
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Germany. Heer. Gebirgsjäger-Regiment 144.
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Germany. Heer -- Biography.
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Snipers -- Germany -- Biography.
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Soldiers -- Germany -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
Wacker, Albrecht.
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| Added Title |
Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knight's Cross |
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hoopla (Digital media service)
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| ISBN |
9781526763198 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1526763192 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT15156272 |
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