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

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Later, the horror and confusion of fighting in the streets of Stalingrad are brought to life by his descriptions of the others in his unit, their differing manners and techniques for dealing with the squalor and death. We sometimes make mistakes in our spelling, transcription or categorisation, or miss information out of our records. We give people around the world the opportunity to contribute to the circular economy, earn money and protect the planet, by trading their unwanted books and media. I was hoping to find something similar here to 'the Forgotten Soldier' and whilst much of the book delivers, I can't really recommend this on the whole due to that niggling feeling that you are being delivered a substantially airbrushed version of history.

Gunter Koschorrek wrote his diary on any scraps of paper he could lay his hands on, storing them with his mother on infrequent trips home on leave. He give a vivid sense of the sheer horror and hopelessness which ensues when when infantry, devoid of cover and heavy weapons, are overrun by tanks. The diary went missing, and it was not until he was reunited with his daughter in America some forty years later that it came to light and became Blood Red Snow. His memoir relates these horrific experiences and it draws the reader in so that he feels that he too is in the frontline standing next to the author.

He is also posted to Romania and Italy, assignments he remembers fondly compared to his time on the Eastern Front.

The author also doesn't shy away from presenting the atrocities of both sides(albeit the Soviet ones stick out more), but at the same time keeps both sides sharply human, which is something many war books fail to do. It may be that Koschorrek's diary was a truthful account of the man's experience at the time it was written. In the second part of the novel, "One Night in Moscow", Ransome is haunted by the scenes he has witnessed. 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. He describes the horrendous treatment committed by Russian soldiers against their own Russian civilians who they falsely accused of harboring Germans.If you have concerns about the language in this record, or you have information to improve it, please share your feedback. 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. I also preferred the broad experience he had in many theaters of battle besides engagements in the Soviet Union.

In addition, the maps used in the book are poorly drawn and don't really provide much of a sense of location to the battles described.Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).