Sniping Rifles on the Eastern Front 1939-45

Fully illustrated, this absorbing study investigates the development of sniping weapons and techniques on World War II's Eastern Front.

The Soviet Union had developed a significant sniping force by 1939, but the extraordinary skill and cunning displayed by Finnish snipers during the Winter War forced the Soviets to innovate. On the other side, German sniping suffered from a lack of standardization of weapons and a lack of marksmen deployed at the start of the Great Patriotic War (1941–45). T...