War of the Rats is a World War II fiction novel written by David L. Robbins in 1999.
The movie Enemy at the Gates is partially based on this book.
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 ki...
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War of the Rats is a World War II fiction novel written by David L. Robbins in 1999.
The movie Enemy at the Gates is partially based on this book.
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. The two snipers, Army Chief Master Sergeant Vasily Zaytsev of the Red Army and SS Colonel Heinz Thorvald of the German army, are equally matched. However, the story is complicated when an American woman who is trapped in USSR, Tania Chernova, becomes one of Vasily's most talented assistants.
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