its fiction/faction
This account is a detailed first person, ground level view of a sniper on the eastern front. It reads EXACTLY like a Sven Hassel. This is achieved by the author making up the stories. He has, at most, met the sniper, Wacker, and got some brief outline stories of Wacker's actions. From these, he has written what he imagines it must have been like. He creates details and info that Wacker couldnt have known, and this pads the story out. So it is just as if Sven Hassel had written a story about wacker. God alone knows if theres ANY truth in it....maybe a few grains...Gripping, fast , trashy, hollywood war.