World's Greatest Sniper Stories

A Marine sniper once remarked, “Everybody hates snipers until they go into combat.”

In The Greatest Sniper Stories Ever Told, editor Tom McCarthy has compiled a wide-ranging collection that will take readers to:

• The bloody front lines of the American Civil War, with the best marksmen from Vermont, who had earlier shown their shooting skills to none other than Abraham Lincoln
• The trenches of World War I, where the philosophy and skills of killing the enemy by stealth were refined
• Vietnam, where Marines learned “the real art of sniping”
• Iraq and Afghanistan, to see the work of modern-day snipers, including the longest kill shot in the Iraq War

Snipers have short lives and make extraordinary sacrifices, and they do so in silence and anonymity. This collection of sniper stories brings together some of the most amazing, terrifying, and compelling stories—inside stories recounting the horrors of war.