Reddit reviews Sniper on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knight's Cross

If you're interested, I suggest you go out and read both Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege and Berlin: The Downfall. Really some of the best books on the Eastern Front I've ever read. There's also books like Sniper on the Eastern Front, and also Enemy at the Gates (not the movie, the book, which is superb).

Also, may I suggest Downfall about Hitlers last days in Berlin's Fuhrerbunker told from his secretary's point of view. I found it to be the best movie I had ever seen on the Eastern Front.

Books seen from the german perspective

• Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front
  
• Tigers in the Mud: The Combat Career of German Panzer Commander Otto Carius
  
• Eastern Inferno: The Journals of a German Panzerjager on the Eastern Front 1941-43
  
• Twilight of the Gods: A Swedish Volunteer in the 11th SS Panzergrenadier Division on the Eastern Front
  
• Grenadiers: The Story of Waffen SS General Kurt "Panzer" Meyer
  
• Sniper on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knight's Cross
  
  Books seen from the russian perspective
  
  
• Red Road from Stalingrad: Reflections of a Soviet Infantryman
  
• T-34 in Action
  
• Panzer Destroyer: Memoirs of a Red Army Tank Commander
  
• Guns Against the Reich: Memoirs of an Artillery Officer on the Eastern Front
  
  Much more good books to find, but then its gonna be a very long list, lets first see how you guys like the books above

The author of this memoir talks about exactly that. He didn't start out as a sniper. He only received a scoped k98 once he returned from a formal sniper school a ways into the war.