Blood red snow the memoirs of a German soldier on the Eastern Front

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 tells of 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...

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Main Author: Koschorrek, Günter K., 1923-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
German
Published: St. Paul, MN : Zenith Press, 2005.
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300 |a 318 pages :  |b illustrations, maps, portraits ;  |c 24 cm 
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546 |a Text in English; translated from the German. 
505 0 |a En route -- Fighting in Stalingrad -- A narrow escape -- A last-minute reprieve -- Blood red snow falls not from the sky -- A temporary lull -- Hunting Italian partisans -- Return to the Russian inferno -- Alarm at the Nikopol bridghead -- Fear and hatred supplant tears -- Through bottomless mud -- Deadly intermezzo -- From knight's cross to wooden cross -- Condemned to death -- Vultures over Nemmersdorf -- From Poland to a fool's paradise -- Better dead than Siberia. 
520 |a 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 tells of 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. He is also posted to Romania and Italy, assignments he remembers fondly compared to his time on the Eastern Front. 
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