Eastern Front Sniper: The Life of Matthäus Hetzenauer (Greenhill Sniper Library) - Softcover

Buch 1 von 3: Greenhill Sniper Library

Kaltenegger, Roland

 
9781784387945: Eastern Front Sniper: The Life of Matthäus Hetzenauer (Greenhill Sniper Library)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1784387940 ISBN 13: 9781784387945
Verlag: Greenhill Books, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Eastern Front Sniper is a long overdue and comprehensive biography of one of World War II’s most accomplished snipers.Mathäus Hetzenauer, the son of a Tyrolean peasant family, was born in December 1924. He was drafted into the Mountain Reserve Battalian 140 at the age of 18 but discharged five months later.He received a new draft notice in January 1943 for a post in the Styrian Truppenübungsplatz Seetal Alps where he met some of the best German snipers and learned his art.Hetzenauer went on to fight in Romania, Eastern Hungary and in Slovakia. As recognition for his more than 300 confirmed kills, he was awarded on the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on April 17, 1945.After nearly five years of Soviet captivity Mathäus Hetzenauer returned to Austria on January 10, 1950. He lived in the Tyrol's Brixen Valley until his death on 3 October of 2004.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Roland Kaltenegger is the author of more than ten books on World War II including The Mountain Troops Of the Waffen-SS 1941-1945 and Weapons and Equipment Of the German Mountain Troops In World War II.

Martin Pegler is a well-known military historian and writer who has made a special study of historic firearms and the battles of the Great War. He was Senior Curator of Firearms at the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds and is the author of many articles in military history journals and magazines and has written seven books.

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Verlag
Greenhill Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1784387940
ISBN 13 
9781784387945
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Anzahl der Seiten
192
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