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. 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 losts experience, that makes up the memoir that is Blood Red Snow.