[OT] Historical snipers(Was[DS and SG] Snipers)

> On Mon, 26 Oct 1998 09:53:30 John M. Atkinson wrote:

Read the biography of Carlos Hathcock. In it he describes some of the greusome
deaths that captured snipers did suffer in Vietnam. There
weren't many VC counter-snipers, but the ones that existed were
extremely vicious.

> Of course, on the Eastern Front in WWII where both sides had serious

Can anyone recommend a good historical book covering snipers in WWII in
general (and snipers on the Eastern front, specifically)?

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> Jim 'Jiji' Foster wrote:

> >Of course, on the Eastern Front in WWII where both sides had serious

Not as such, I'm afraid.

My Grandfather on my father's side was a sniper during WW I, with the BEF. He
had the dubious honour of having fought at Mons, then being with the first
wave at Gallipoli, then first and second Somme before being wounded too badly
to be patched up and sent in again.

Most of his tasks were counter-sniper work. Basically crawl into no-mans
land at night, find 3 or 4 firing positions, observe the enemy sniper at