When German bombers reduced Stalingrad to rubble in 1942, they unknowingly created the perfect battlefield for snipers. Soviet marksmen like Vasily Zaitsev and Lyudmila Pavlichenko turned shattered ...

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"Recon," a good old-fashioned World War II movie, turns out to be one of the few films that's trying to make a big impact in theaters this fall. It's scheduled for a Veterans Day one-night screening ...

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In May 1941, during the German invasion of Crete in World War II, Sergeant Alfred Clive Hume of New Zealand made a decision ...

In the blazing ruins of Stalingrad, where men hunted men with such savagery that even the dogs fled howling into the night, occurred the greatest sniper duel in history. Too bad it’s more myth than ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: There were simply more Soviet snipers, with more scoped rifles, than Germany could match early on. “Initially the Germans faced little opposition apart from ...