Sniper, Hero of the Soviet Union Vasily Zaitsev (left) examining the task to beginners, Stalingrad, 1942. Source: RIA Novosti. Stalingrad’s most celebrated hero, the accountant-turned-sniper ...

On one side was Vasily Zaitsev, the Soviet army’s deadliest sniper, with some 400 kills.On the other was one “Major Konig,” the head of the German army’s sniper school in Berlin, whom the ...

Too bad it’s more myth than history. On one side was Vasily Zaitsev, the Soviet army’s deadliest sniper, with some 400 kills.On the other was one “Major Konig,” the head of the German army ...