The 2001 film “Enemy at the Gates” portrays this duel between German sniper Erwin Konig and Soviet sniper Vasili Zaitsev, both considered two of the deadliest snipers of the war.

"Enemy at the Gates" is far more remarkable for what it shows than what it is. What it shows is a convincing re-creation of one of the great convulsions of the last century, the battle for ...

Perhaps the truest sign of Saving Private Ryan 's artistic influence and commercial success is the release this weekend of Enemy at the Gates, a World War II film based, for this part of the world ...

The Soviet and German armies in World War II used hordes of snipers—far more than the American and British armies—to pick off enemy officers, artillery observers and machine-gun crews.

Proving again that war is hell, and some war films are, too, Jean-Jacques Annaud's "Enemy at the Gates" takes a great setting, some resonant themes, a turning point in 20th-century history -- and ...

Soviet snipers like Zaytsev started to specifically target German officers and this tactic soon took a devastating toll on the German Army’s morale and command structure. Zaytsev had a number of ...

Early February marks the 76th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Stalingrad, the largest military engagement in history. The Franco-American film, Enemy at the Gates, recreated those events ...

A Ukrainian sniper took out a Russian soldier from nearly 2.5 miles away with a high-tech rifle known as "Horizon's Lord" — shattering a world record for the longest sniper kill, Ukraine says.

Ukrainian snipers hunting top enemy commanders are exploiting one of the Russian military's biggest vulnerabilities By Ryan Pickrell ...

In 1973 William Craig wrote a book he entitled Enemy at the Gates: the Battle of Stalingrad. Much of the book is based on personal interviews with Vassili Zaitsev, the young boy from the Ural ...