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

Unique memories of MG-Schütze (machine gunner) from the motorized infantry units of the 24th Panzer Division of the Wehrmacht—he survived the bloodiest battles of the Eastern Front, miraculously escaped from the Stalingrad pocket where his entire division perished, lived through the hellish ordeal of the Nicopol bridgehead, and after the terrible defeat of the German forces in Romania. Despite the strict prohibition, Kinсhermann kept a front-line diary throughout the war, and this book was written based on it.

These memoirs are a rare opportunity to see the Great Patriotic War “from the other side.” Discover the “trench truth” in German. Look into the enemy’s soul. Taste the salty, blood-red snow of the Eastern Front…