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Synopsis. The plot focuses on a 1942 battle between the Nazi Germans and the Soviets set in Stalingrad, Soviet Union. The battle is declared by Viktor Tabori to be " Rattenkrieg "; translated, War of the Rats. The story focuses in on the lives of two expert snipers, a Russian and a German, each with the goal of killing the other.
Nov 4, 2012 · Rattenkrieg, meaning “rat war” is the word the Germans gave to the vicious house to house and room to room warfare they experienced in Stalingrad during World War II. Taubert uses the term to describe close quarters battle (CQB) from right off the end of the muzzle to across the room distances – the fastest, deadliest of all combat arenas.
- Ed Head
May 1, 1999 · For six months in 1942, Stalingrad is the center of a titanic struggle between the Russian and German armies—the bloodiest campaign in mankind's long history of warfare. The outcome is pivotal. If Hitler's forces are not stopped, Russia will fall.
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- Mass Market Paperback
Aug 16, 2012 · Meet Bob Taubert. Thirty-two months as a combat infantry officer in Vietnam, one of the FBI agents called upon to train the agency’s Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) when it was incepted, and one of the...
- Ralph Mroz
Dec 16, 2009 · German soldiers call the battle Rattenkrieg, War of the Rats. The combat is horrific, as soldiers die in the smoking cellars and trenches of a ruined city. Through this twisted carnage...
- David L. Robbins
- Random House Publishing Group, 2009
- 0307575373, 9780307575371
- War of the Rats: A Novel
Jul 1, 2012 · Rattenkrieg was the term used by German soldiers during the battle for Stalingrad to describe the type of vicious, close quarters battle they experienced there while fighting a determined force of Russian soldiers and partisans street by bloody street.
- Robert K. Taubert
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Rattenkrieg (Rat War) is a German term that originates from the “Battle of Stalingrad” – its fierce close quarter battle in the sewers that depicts the urban warfare for real estate. These were vicious fast paced skirmishes with long guns and pistols.
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