1933 Soviet Sniper Manual and other things

[Surpmil]

Rather ridiculous that the Allenberger book has 2500+ reviews on Amazon and the "Voices of Russian Snipers" has precisely one. Allenberger is useful for the window it provides into the typical mentality of the type. Apparently he took up sniping as a sport with a captured Soviet rifle at the outset.

The Shanina book is poorly reviewed as being mostly a recounting of personal relationships and that of only about six months total coverage.

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recounting of personal relationships

yes. it read like a petty juvenile's love diary more suitable as a romance novel than a historical reference...but it was interspersed with valuable details of how such a co-ed army functioned in the reality of the times.

with a captured Soviet rifle at the outset.

The regular use of exploding ammunition by the soviets and german's alike, the latter in retaliation with captured ammunition whenever available and the former as a seemingly SOP (grain of salt here given the bias of the author) I found a worthwhile detail that I hadn't read in any of the more meta-level historical account.