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Poised to stand among the fantastic war books, the harrowing chronicle of a sniper through the Chechen Warfare."The saboteurs? Holy Christ, what took place? What did you are doing to need that?" a fellow soldier responds when he hears that Nicolai Lilin has been designated for an unconventional, ultra-high-risk paramilitary unit of the Russian military. Also nicknamed the "para-bats" for the dark-colored parachutes that lowered them behind enemy lines at night, Lilin and his fellow "saboteurs" soon end up struggling Islamic insurgents equipped with American weaponry in the breakaway province of Chechnya.In brilliant, harrowing depth, Lilin relays how, under the mind-bending hazards of heavy fireplace, on unknown ground, in unstable small villages, the one goal is success. Under the management of corrupt generals profiting from the warfare, his unit grows a camaraderie that is their best hope for keeping yourself alive-and staying human being. Ultimately, the return to the bland normality of the impersonal world at "peace" might be the hardest have difficulty of all.Writing with unhindered directness and electric power, Lilin combines his own experience as a sniper in Chechnya alongside the stories of these he fought beside to forge an autobiographical book unique in the books of warfare. A bestseller in European countries, this novel will remain an unforgettable bank account of 1 of the ugliest conflicts in our time.