About the book: 2011 / The sniper account of the author of this book includes 209 lives of Soviet soldiers. In addition to the Iron Cross 1st class, Bruno Sytkus was also awarded the rare “Sniper” sleeve badge of the highest degree, the owners of which preferred not to surrender - they were usually shot on the spot. The incredible story of his life reads like an adventure novel, which had everything - a merciless war on the Eastern Front, sniper duels, injuries, participation in the atrocities of the Lithuanian “forest brothers”, exile to Siberia, many years of work in coal mines, the threat of a tribunal for war crimes, amnesty and, finally, return to Germany after the collapse of the USSR. Syutkus spoke about all this and, above all, about the bloody craft of a front-line sniper in his book - a shocking confession of a professional killer.