And then there is the touching story of the Ukrainian kitchen helper Katya and her constant worry about the soldiers from Koschorrek's unit, who she had grown so fond of . For one, the author seems less dreamy and sentimental than Sajer did, and goes more into detail about the actual fighting not just the results of said fighting. The author gives a more balanced description of his Soviet enemies than some German memoirs, largely avoiding the clichéd descriptions of mindless hordes advancing with commissars at the rear that blight other accounts.

A German soldier recounts his experience serving along the deathly cold Eastern Front, fighting the Russian army in World War II. On the Front, he and his fellow infantrymen battled the enemy, the elements, the terrain, and hunger together. Although the writing was strong and it contained a lot of interest, it pales substantially when compared to Sajer's 'the Forgotten Soldier' opus. Its important to note he never said he SAW Soviets massacring their own civilians, only that he saw the aftermath of these atrocities. For anyone seeking to understand the experiences of the ordinary German soldier during World War II, Blood Red Snow provides an excellent starting point.

Kitabı zaman zaman roman okur gibi okudum çünkü gerçekten sadece kurgu olaylarda olmasını dilediğim anlar yaşamış yazar. If one is a WWII historian, or just avid history of one of the most devastating conflicts in history, this is nicely done. Through a brilliantly vivid and gripping storytelling, the author details his frontline experience as an ordinary soldier. Günter Koschorrek wrote his illicit diary on any piece of scrap of paper he could lay his hands on, storing them with his mother on infrequent trips home on leave.

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. Sometimes we discover new information that changes what we know about an object, such as who made it or used it. Really shows that the average German solider was just a person caught up in war no different than any one else unfortunate enough to find themself in one.

Written in a diary format, the book starts strongly but I was left feeling that something didn't quite add up, and I can't really explain what. It is some months before he regains his journalist status, and meanwhile there is civil war in Russia. This is a very good account of a warrior's experience, an absolute must for anyone interested in personal accounts from WWII.

It may be that Koschorrek's diary was a truthful account of the man's experience at the time it was written. It's simply a diary-formatted account of a common foot soldier living, fighting, and being repeatedly wounded in the hell that was the Eastern Front, and as such it's extremely brutal at times. 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.According to these historians there is no indication that such massacres - as Koschorrek claims - were falsely blamed on the Germen troops. A book leaves our collection of over seven million titles and begins a new chapter every two seconds, enabling more goods to be reused.

Even if not all soldiers could be fully aware of this at the time of the events, there is no excuse when writing after the end of the war, when everything is made clear. 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 and their differing manners and techniques for dealing with the squalor and death. He becomes acquainted with the leading Bolsheviks and begins a romance with Trotsky's secretary Evgenia who will become his second wife.

The path of the total eclipse of August 2017 had our offices at 99% totality - we closed the office to go watch the spectacle, but first we put together this gallery inspired by eclipses to celebrate. From October 1942 until August 1944, he served in the 1 st Battalion, 21 st Panzergrenadier Regiment, 24 Panzer Division, seeing action at Stalingrad, the Nikopol Bridgehead and in Romania. The novel describes the origins and events of the Russian Revolution, interwoven with the experiences of Arthur Ransome, then a journalist in Russia.