This book is the cruel and cynical revelations of a professional killer who went through the most terrible battles of the Second World War, who knows the true price of a soldier’s life on the front line, who saw death a hundred times through the optical sight of his sniper rifle. After the Polish campaign of 1939, where Günther Bauer Having proven himself to be an exceptionally accurate marksman, he was transferred to the elite parachute troops of the Luftwaffe, turning from a simple Feldgrau (infantryman) into a professional Scharfschutze (sniper), and in the first hours of the French campaign, as part of the sabotage group "Granit", stormed the most impregnable fortress of that time - Fort Eben-Emael. Subsequently, Bauer participated in the famous airborne assault on Crete, the battles in Italy and the counter-offensive in the Ardennes, but, by his own admission, the most difficult, most dangerous and bloody years were one and a half years on the Eastern Front - like most German veterans, he spent the rest of his life with I recalled with a shudder the Russian frosts and Russian tanks, the merciless battle for Moscow and the final assault on Berlin.