War of Resistance Sniper: Pei Tianlai

This is the blood-and-fire legend of a real-life resistance-war sniper, and the story of an ordinary Chinese man forced to become a hero in turbulent times. Pei Tianlai enters the battlefield in 1938. He sees villages burned to the ground, children starve to death, and comrades buried in the frigid mountains. He also sees the Eighth Route Army claw hope back from the brink of despair, time and again. The more he fights, the deadlier his aim becomes, and the more painful it is to stay alive. The names of the dead are carved into his rifle stock, while his heart holds a love he never spoke of. By the end, it is often the reader's heart that breaks first.