Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #95915 in Books
• Published on: 1994-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 260 pages

Customer Reviews

One Shot One Kill - A Review
A very candid book with accounts from ex-snipers that describes their art in very graphic detail. Not for the faint hearted, the book contains lots of descriptions of killings and the emotions the snipers felt about their jobs.

Well worth a read for anyone interested in sniping.

Really good book
I found this book to be very readable and highly informative about the role of the sniper in modern military conflicts. The book is written by Charles W. Sasser and Craig Roberts,(both veterans of the US Army) and consists of two different themes of writing. The first theme is a firsthand account (in first peron, from the sniper's perspective) from a few US Army and Marine Snipers of different eras, ranging from WWII to Beirut. This bit is highly readable and tells you almost what it's like to be out there. The second theme chronicles the role of the sniper in modern conflicts, on how sniping has evolved, and analyses some aspects of the sniper, and instances where the sniper has faced another sniper, such as the Konings-Zaitsev duel.
This book is very well researched and put together, and deserves 5 stars.
(Note: not for the sqeamish or easily offended)

One Shot--One Kill
I have mixed feelings about this book because of the structure of the content. Some chapters consist of a general discussion about snipers & sniping, while the other chapters are first-person narratives based on interviews of various snipers. The latter were quite interesting and made for good reading, the former, however, were not so good because of the haphazard manner in which the information was organized, unnecessary repetition, and, as is mentioned in other reviews, the inclusion of questionable facts such as the Zaystev/Koenig duel.