Has anyone read the book "Blood Red Snow" by Gunter K Koschorrek ???
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I have and thought it was a outstanding book, about the Eastern Front
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Thanks Tom, I picked up a copy last night....
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A very good read!Comment
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Yep good read
JonathanComment
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This is a good book and it is an amazing account of the horrors on the Eastern Front. Everybody needs to read this. All together amazing!Comment
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Just finished the book. I feel like I know the guy....great book.Comment
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Totally agree, an excellent read.
Cheers
IanComment
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Yep, one of the better books to pick up.
Don't believe everything you read on the internet, that's how WWI got started.Comment
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Is this book a recent pulication...told from who'd and what side? Details would be appreciated. Thanks!
EricComment
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Koschorrek's ability to write in such an engaging style is due in no small part to the efforts of his daughter from a failed first marriage. Never having known him she was able locate and return the copious notes he had written during the war.Comment
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Hi Eric,Originally posted by peleliuexplorer View Post
From inside the books cover; the original in German came out in 1998, the first english translation, 2002, the edition I just read, 2005
The book is the memoirs of a German machine gunner who served mainly in Russia from 1942.
Further details can be found here...............
http://www.amazon.com/Blood-Red-Snow...6912379&sr=8-1
Hope this helps
Cheers
IanComment
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Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
This memoir is the first-person account of a German soldier who served on the eastern front during World War II. The author is not concerned with examining the reasons for the war or the tactics used to fight it. Rather, he sets out to present the day-to-day realities of the German soldiers by naming them and then relating their fates, which too often was violent death. Many of Koschorrek's compatriots were run over by Soviet tanks or blown to pieces by Soviet shells. This memoir by a former German soldier is reminiscent of accounts by American GIs, such as Charles Reis Felix's recent Crossing the Sauer. For capturing so unsparingly the banality and horror of war, this book is highly recommended for large public and academic libraries. Robert J. Andrews, Duluth P.L., MN
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Book Description
For the German soldier fighting under Hitler, keeping a diary was strictly forbidden. So Gunther 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 lostand was not coming 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.Comment
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Originally posted by IanC View Post
Thanks Ian....just got it in the mail today from amazon.com!
Look forward to reading it.
-EricComment
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