Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front
By (Author) Gunter K. Koschorrek
Motorbooks International
Motorbooks International
30th October 2005
31st March 2006
United States
General
Non Fiction
B
Paperback
288
508g
For the German soldier fighting under Hitler, keeping a diary was strictly forbidden. So Gunter Koschorrek, a fresh young recruit, wrote his notes on whatever scraps of paper he could find and sewed the pages into the lining of his winter coat. Left with his mother on his rare trips home, this illicit diary eventually was lost-and did not come to light until some 40 years later when Koschorrek was reunited with his daughter in America. It is this remarkable document, a unique day-to-day account of the common German soldiers experience, that makes up the memoir that is Blood Red Snow.