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

For the German soldier fighting under Hitler, keeping a diary was strictly forbidden. Günter 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 only came to light until some 40 years later when Koschorrek was reunited with his daughter in America. It is a remarkable document, a unique day-to-day account of the common German soldiers experience in Word War 2.