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

A German soldier recounts his experience serving along the deathly cold Eastern Front, fighting the Russian army in World War II.

Gnter Koschorrek wrote his illicit diary on any scraps of paper he could lay his hands on, storing them with his mother on infrequent trips home on leave. 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.

The author's excitement at the first encounter ...