Sniping Rifles on the Eastern Front 1939-45

Martin Pegler

ISBN 10: 1472825896 / ISBN 13: 9781472825896

Editore: Bloomsbury USA Mär 2019, 2019

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Neuware - 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). There were few heroes in the conflict, but on both sides, the snipers were idolized - especially on the Soviet side, gaining almost mythical status.As well as traditional bolt-action weapons, both sides used several types of semi-automatic rifle, such as the SVT-38 and the Gew 41. Offering greater firepower at the expense of long-range accuracy, such weapons would be profoundly influential in the postwar world.Fully illustrated, this absorbing study investigates the development of sniping weapons and techniques on World War II's Eastern Front.

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• Titolo: Sniping Rifles on the Eastern Front 1939-45
• Editore: Bloomsbury USA Mär 2019
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1472825896
• ISBN 13: 9781472825896
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Disegnatore: Gilliland, Alan; Shumate, Johnny
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 246 L x 184 A x 10 P (millimetri) 246 millimetri di larghezza per 184 millimetri di altezza per 10 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 258 grammi

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Featuring specially commissioned artwork, an absorbing investigation into the technology and tactics employed by snipers on both sides on the Eastern Front of World War II, from Leningrad to Berlin.

Informazioni sugli autori

Martin Pegler has a BA Hons in Medieval and Modern History and an MA in Museum Studies, both from University College, London, and was for many years the Senior Curator of Firearms at the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds. Martin has established The Somme Historical Centre (www.martinpegler.com), where visitors can see the technology used in the 1914-18 trench warfare. He is currently an author and firearms consultant and he also lectures at local Great War museums.

He is the author of a number of books including The Military Sniper since 1914 (Osprey, 2001), Firearms in the American West 1700-1900 (The Crowood Press, 2002), and the highly acclaimed Out of Nowhere: A History of the Military Sniper (Osprey, 2004). In the 1980s he had the privilege of interviewing many World War I veterans about their wartime experiences, and the recordings are now part of the sound archives of the Imperial War Museum, London.

Alan Gilliland, a contributor to more than 70 Osprey titles, notably in the Weapon series, writes, illustrates and publishes fiction (www.ravensquill.com), as well as illustrating for a variety of publishers (alangillilandillustration.blogspot.com).

Johnny Shumate works as a freelance illustrator living in Nashville, Tennessee. He began his career in 1987 after graduating from Austin Peay State University. Most of his work is rendered in Adobe Photoshop using a Cintiq monitor. His greatest influences are Angus McBride, Don Troiani, and Édouard Detaille.