Description: I COMBINE SHIPPING $1.50 per book. FREE SHIPPING for orders over $60. Send books to your check-out cart. E-Bay will automatically adjust shipping costs. PACKAGING & SHIPPING RULES: 1. Individual books Under $18.00 are shipped in padded poly envelopes. 2. Individual books Over $18.00 are shipped in a poly envelope inside a box. 3. Buy Three or more books and the order is shipped in a box.ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS LISTING:This sniper served on the Leningrad Front from 1941-1942. In late 1942 he is severely wounded and this ends his sniping service. He goes on to be in intelligence and then an artillery unit for the final drive into Germany. From the Book review: 'I did not regard myself as a slacker. Even in childhood I taught myself to carry out tasks entrusted conscientiously and carefully. In war, it is no secret that the casual don't survive'.Yevgeni Nikolaev was one of Russia’s leading snipers of World War II and his memoir provides and unparalleled account of front-line action in crucial theaters of war. Nikolaev is credited with a remarkable 324 kills and his wartime service included time in the siege of Leningrad in 1941/1942.His memoir is not a neutral, apolitical account. Far from it. Nikolaev asserts, for example, that Finland attacked Russia. As a member of the NKVD, it is not surprising that his memoir full of historical misinterpretation and justification of the agency’s actions.Equally, Nikoalev is dismissive of his Nazi opponents. On several occasions, he discusses his Nazi counterparts as bandits and scum, and implores the reader to “take a look, fellows, at the beast of a bastard I’ve laid low”.In vivid, arresting recollections he paints his actions in a saintly heroic light. He describes the comfort of the German foxholes, wired with telephone connections, relative to the Russians who fasted without food or water awaiting the moment for a perfect shot. He claims the Russian soldier was a moral warrior, killing only with head or heart shots.In addition to describing details of his kills, Nikolaev explains how his life was saved when an explosive rifle bullet struck a watch that he kept in his jacket pocket. His life was saved by a surgeon who extracted all the watch parts.
Price: 20 USD
Location: Livonia, Michigan
End Time: 2024-10-23T14:31:52.000Z
Shipping Cost: 5.4 USD
Product Images
Item Specifics
Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money back or replacement (buyer's choice)
Book Title: Red Army Sniper
Book Series: Greenhill Sniper Library
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Green Hill Book
Item Length: 9.2 in
Intended Audience: Adults
Modified Item: No
Subject: History
Vintage: No
Publication Year: 2017
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Illustrator: Yes
Era: 1940s
Item Height: 0.9 in
Author: Yevgeni Nikolaev
Features: Dust Jacket
Genre: Biographies & True Stories, History, Military, War & Combat
Topic: Army, Combat, Foreign Militaries, Military History, True Military Stories, World War II, Military / Special Forces, Military / World War II, Europe / Eastern, Sniper
Subjects: History & Military
Item Width: 6.1 in
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
