Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front

By Günter K. Koschorrek

Book Overview

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 soldier's experience, that makes up the memoir that is Blood Red Snow.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0760321981
• ISBN13: 9780760321980
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Zenith Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Incredible first person account of WWII

One of the best books I have read in awhile. The author writes with a bluntness and intensity that conveys not only the horrors of war, but the mundane daily struggles. His personal tragedies echo that of millions of other innocents swept up in a war that took so many lives.