re: Military Sniper Book(s) Recommendations

Thoughts of a Sniper, also published under
Notes of a Russian Sniper .

Zaytsev, Vasily (2003).

Vasily's book show what it is like to be a sniper in a huge battle, at one point he is mad because one sniper is killing Germans just to add to his total. This is likely not what happened at all, the sniper in question just like Vasily was caught up in a German mass attack. When this happened to Vasily he too had to shot all of them he could.

German massed for attacks even in Stalingrad, as did the Soviet troops.

Vasily fought on the east and northeast side of the Mamayev Kurgan, looking up to the Germans on the Mamayev Kurgan. The spring in the book is also the same spring written about in Ljubov Sladkova-Avetisian book, From The Fire Of Stalingrad. This spring is just down the road from where her house was, at the bottom of the Mamayev Kurgan.

Vasily is moved from northeast side of the Mamayev Kurgan to just north of the chemical factory very close to the southern side of the Red October factory, when the German attack starts. This is when he found out sometimes you do have to shot to kill everyone, as the Germans had lunched as huge operation to take the Red October factory.