An innate sharpshooter, the young woman was then tasked with countering the German snipers at Sevastopol in the summer of 1941, where she learned all about endurance and restraint.

The 2001 film “Enemy at the Gates” portrays this duel between German sniper Erwin Konig and Soviet sniper Vasili Zaitsev, both considered two of the deadliest snipers of the war.

The movie follows four American soldiers over the course of a day after they're sent on a possible suicide mission over a mountain.

The Soviet and German armies in World War II used hordes of snipers—far more than the American and British armies—to pick off enemy officers, artillery observers and machine-gun crews.

German snipers hidden in the dense forest felled Allied soldiers left and right in the dead of winter during one of the war's bloodiest battles. "They weren't just throwing lead out.

The sniper rifle used to clear 505 confirmed kills and held by the deadliest sniper in warfare history may not be what you think. In fact, it didn’t even have a scope. It was a Finnish Civil ...

Pegler and Bujeiro note that during one ambush in September 1941, Soviet snipers killed at least 75 German soldiers of the 465th Infantry Regiment before disappearing into the woods.