There are 257 lives of soviet soldiers on the battle account of author of this book. It is memoirs of one of the best Scharfschutze (snipers) of Вермахта. It is cynical revelations of pitiless professional about horrific cruelty of war at the East front, in that there was not a place to neither knighthood nor compassion.In July, 1943 a young machine gunner Йозеф Оллерберг was injured under Ворошиловском. In a hospital he decided to experiment with Russian sniper by a rifle that by chance got to him in hands. Over the months he went back into the regiment the prepared shooter and forever changed military speciality. In days, when hitlerites had continuously to retreat under the shots of Red Army, Оллерберг became one of the most successful German snipers. Sly and pitiless, possessing superhuman self-control and animal sense of locality on a battle-field, he survived in most frightful fights of East front, but paid a monstrous price for a survival, growing into a complete killer.