Soldier... | Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs Of A German

"We are no longer fighting for a cause... we are fighting for each other."

It avoids the "hindsight" bias found in many post-war accounts. Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier...

Unlike many memoirs written decades later, Koschorrek based this on notes he scribbled in the field and hid in his uniform. It captures the sheer terror, the bone-chilling cold, and the psychological toll of the war in real-time. "We are no longer fighting for a cause

If you want a raw, unvarnished look at the Eastern Front of WWII, "Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front" by Günter K. Koschorrek is a haunting essential. the bone-chilling cold