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

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He describes the horrendous treatment committed by Russian soldiers against their own Russian civilians who they falsely accused of harboring Germans. It includes an account of Ransome's possible spying activities and reprints some Secret Service documents released by the National Archives in 2005. After training as a heavy machine gunner, a particularly lethal, rapid-fire weapon mounted on a gun carriage, Koschorrek headed out to the Eastern Front and started making illicit notes, which he hid in the lining of his uniform. This book stands as a graphic memorial to the huge numbers on both sides who did not survive the war in the East. I'm referring to the descriptions of Soviet massacres against their own civilian population accused of collaborating with the enemy, which the author claims to have witnessed during the German troops' retreat from the river Inhul to Voznesensk on the southern Bug (Mikolayiv Oblast, Ukraine) in March 1944 (pages 230, 235/236 and 242/243 of the English translation).

I'm not sure of the survival rates for machine gunners, which was Koschorrek's specialty, so when I was reading I just sat back and marveled as he dodged endless waves of T-34s and mortars, or in the most ridiculous scene, manages to keep one step ahead of the Russians by stealing a pony. Scholarly emphasis with especially strong holdings in Native American Studies, Art, Music, History, Natural Science, Math, Poetry and Languages etc.It tells about his service in general terms, no political crap just the thoughts of common soilder caught in the hell of war. The author gives a more balanced descriptions of his Soviet enemies than some German memoirs, largely avoiding the cliched descriptions of a mindless hordes advancing with commissars at the rear that blight other accounts. As you read the book you feel that these men are also your friends and together you are suffering from these horrors. Bir daha böyle şeyler yaşanmaması için fazla iyi niyetli bir dilek dilemekten başka elimden başka bir şey gelmiyor maalesef.

The first edition hardback published in August 2007 by Orion Children's Books was printed throughout in dark red ink. What happened during the retreat from Stalingrad though just totally opened Gunter up to us and gave us so much more than so many personal account give; emotion and feeling, fear and joy. a brutal and detailed account of the fighting in Stalingrad and the frozen retreat of the German Army.Wounded 7 times, you get to follow a plain, unassuming mudslogger into the deepest penetration of the USSR and back out. In the second part of the novel, "One Night in Moscow", Ransome is haunted by the scenes he has witnessed. The short chapters give it the feel of an authentic field diary, as if Koschorrek had hurriedly scribbled a few lines every chance he got, though it's not exactly his unedited war diary (he says he lost his initial notes in the front). It is a novel set during the Russian Revolution, a fictionalised account of the time the author Arthur Ransome spent in Russia. The germans were the invaders, there weren`t the saviours so some of the motivation here is kinda of out the context.