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    "description": "During the 1942 Battle of Stalingrad, two brilliant snipers \u2013 Antonov, a Russian, and Meister, a German \u2013 stalk each other through the city ruins.\n\nFor the beleaguered German and Russian armies, the terrible winter at their heels, there is no war beyond the carnage in Stalingrad\u2019s grim skeleton. In desperation, orders come from the very top: victory is to be determined by a duel between champion snipers Antonov the Russian and Meister the German. A duel to the death.\n\nFor the two marksmen there is now no war but the race to pin the other in their sights. Who will be the dead hero and who the living legend? Only time will tell\u2026\n\n\u2018The book is perfect. The horror of war is captured by the spare prose; the tension mounts, and the inevitable confrontation is uplifting in its outcome\u2019 Daily Telegraph\n\n\u2018Told me more than all the military historians ever could about the greatest battle of World War Two\u2019 Daily Mail\n\n\u2018Tense and gripping \u2026 a most effective chiller\u2019 British Book News\n\n\u2018One is reminded of Joseph Conrad\u2019s Heart of Darkness \u2026 For those who like to be in the thick of it, this book is a must\u2019 Surrey and South Middlesex Times\n\n\u2018A good war story\u2019 Kirkus Reviews\n\n\u2018A unique tour de force \u2026 poignant, cogent, a strong novel, suspenseful and fascinating, a novel not easily forgotten\u2019 Florida Sun News",
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