The Sniper from Stalingrad

Stalingrad 1942 - 19-year-old Alfred Miller is a member of the 100th Panzer Division and learns to know and hate the cruel horrors of war during the fierce and costly battles for the "Red October" factory. Thanks to his marksmanship, he becomes a sniper.

After the encirclement of the 6th Army, the young Austrian wanders through the ruins of the dying city on the Volga in the coldest winter for years, both hunter and hunted. Hunger, cold, misery, death and fear are his constant companions.

The war hits hard and merciless every day. The soldiers are brutalized, the hope of salvation dies. Ultimately, there are only two ways to escape suffering and a grim fate: either get on one of the planes out of the cauldron, or die.

- realistic, unsparing novel
- Information about the sniper system of the Wehrmacht
- Original photos from WW II

About the Author

W. T. Wallenda's debut novel "Die Frontsoldaten von Monte Cassino" was already a minor international success. It tells the story of Mathias Wallenda, who was forcibly recruited in 1939 and served in theaters of war in France, the Balkans, Africa and Italy.

The author went on to write some 40 novels of various genres for two major German publishers.

In his books about the Second World War, he deals with difficult contemporary history in an informative way.

The Author comments:

The Second World War was one of the darkest chapters in the history of mankind. There must never be another holocaust or genocide like in Rwanda. The sad example of the bloody civil war in Yugoslavia, which kept the whole of Europe in suspense in the 1990s, shows how forgetful humanity is. We must shed light on the situation, we must not deny anything and we must take rigorous action against injustice.

While researching my books, I also talked to war veterans. As someone born after the war, I am not in a position to judge individual fates - I do not express collective guilt, but let the stories be told by the people who experienced them, and tell them without judgment.

Nowhere did I see brilliance or heroism in the eyes of the narrators. I only saw men who had experienced terrible things and had received no psychological support. Telling their story is/was perhaps the only way for them to detach themselves from it all, without trying to redeem themselves.

Many of the young men who were drafted at that time can also be seen as victims of the Nazis. They were fed false ideologies, torn from their families, and burned out on the front lines. Their tenacious struggle at the front, their suffering and death, made the actions of the death squads in the hinterland possible.

The Author:

"EVERY WAR IS A CRIME! I can only repeat myself: NEVER AGAIN WAR - NEVER AGAIN WAR - NEVER AGAIN NAZI REGIME - NEVER AGAIN HOLOCAUST - NEVER AGAIN CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY - WE MUST NOT FORGET BUT LEARN FROM HISTORY !!!!".