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  • Blood Red Snow

  • The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front
  • Auteur(s): Günter K. Koschorrek
  • Narrateur(s): Nigel Patterson
  • Durée: 9 h et 41 min
  • 4,7 out of 5 stars (121 évaluations)

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Blood Red Snow

Auteur(s): Günter K. Koschorrek
Narrateur(s): Nigel Patterson
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Gunter Koschorrek wrote his illicit diary on any scraps of paper he could lay his hands on. As keeping a diary was strictly forbidden, he sewed the pages into the lining of his thick winter coat and deposited them with his mother on infrequent trips home on leave. The diary went missing, and it was when he was reunited with his daughter in America some 40 years later that it came to light and became Blood Red Snow.

The author was a keen recruit at initial training, and his excitement at the first encounter with the enemy in the Russian Steppe is obvious. 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. He is also posted to Romania and Italy, assignments he remembers fondly compared to his time on the Eastern Front.

This book stands as a memorial to the huge numbers on both sides who did not survive and is, over five decades later, the fulfillment of a responsibility he feels to honor the memory of those who perished. Gunter K. Koschorrek was a machine-gunner on the Russian front in WWII. He lives in Germany, having retired from his job as managing director of a sales company.

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The author cuts out or invents things altogether

First the good. The overall performance of the reader is fantastic. The intimate description of what life was life for an average German soldier on the Eastern Front is quite good.

Now the bad. As someone who is Russian and knows the history of that time period quite well, I am quite disappointed. First off. Author keeps saying that the Russians were using Kalashnikovs. They most definitely were not, as it was not invented until 1947. Then there is absolutely no mention of the Scorched Earth policy and the attoricities the Wermacht (not just SS) committed against the civilian population. Granted, not all soldiers were blood-thirsty murdering thugs that raped and pillaged everything in their way, however I have a hard time buying into the story with Katya. How gentlemanly of men who had just spent months and months living in most terrible of conditions with no women in sight to "just be friends" with a beautiful 18 year old girl.
Basically my gripe with it all is that he portrays them as the most innocent of sheeps and gentlemen. That's not how things went on back then on the Eastern Front.

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Great listen highly recommended

Great book, highly recommended for any WW2 or history buff. Time line was easy to follow and was well detailed.

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Worth reading.

One of the best german eastern first hand accounts I’ve yet found. I would quite put it up there with E.B Sledges edge of your seat read “with the old breed” but it does have something that Sledge didn’t. This book has one of the best first hand accounts of amazing leadership, and very poor leadership and how each can raise the troops up or make them completely fail.

“Two recruits went missing from our barracks in Poland, upon questions their comrades it became apparent they did not desert they were simply gone... this was not an uncommon event in Poland” little tid bits such as these really help put you into the shoes of the individuals and the horrors faced by all sides

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Well written

A good description of an elite BMG operator on the Eastern front in WW2. Lots of grim detail accurately depicted…you can imagine all the scenes of carnage as they’re described. Very interesting from the perspective of a German soldier experiencing at the hands of ‘Ivan’ what he himself dolled out to others while advancing either Wehrmacht: overwhelming might, cruelty and constant terror

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More than just ‘entertainment’

As a military veteran and military historian, I found this to be very accurate in historical terms but more meaningfully, it is a tour de force into the experiences of the average soldier and its psychological effects on the mind and spirit of the frontline warrior.

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voice actors needed

I didn't mind the reader but I would have preferred someone with a German accent. other than that a very good story.

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Decent story, bad narration

Though Blood Red Snow is a good story, it falls short of greatness like other great titles (The Forgotten Soldier). This is made worse by the narrators nearly comical tone, which dilutes the seriousness of the situation. The author also hints at a self serving narrative, distancing himself at every opportunity from the atrocities of his side. All in all, not bad

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This is a Great memoir from a frontline German soldier on the eastern front struggling in ww2

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Fascinating insight into the realities WW2

Well read, clear and excellent pronunciation. Found it more interesting than expected to follow this young soldier through his experience. he seems to have been involved in many of the major events of the eastern front. Also insightful was his shifting attitude and the organization of the German military.

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A brilliant must listen

I really enjoyed it. The reader did a great job although I found his accent to be a little bit too posh. It sounded that posh, that it was almost fake sounding. As posh as you can get. Giving the impression that the writer is very soft natured and royal. It was just a little bit annoying but as the book goes on he either gets better or you get used to it.

The story was brilliant. One of my favourites so far.

In the story he mentions Russians with kalashnikovs. Kalashnikovs(AK47) didn’t exist then. But I believe it to be an error of the editor/ translator and wouldn’t let it discredit the story. Apparently in the German book he used the word machine pistol. In the English version the editor used Kalashnikov. It’s wrong.

Gripping story with no bullshit. It’s to the point with no ego boosting poetics. If you want to know what it was like for some Soldiers in the war it’s a fantastic detailed memoir that’s about life at the time and fighting for survival. Not just glorified fighting. Not all German soldiers were bad people like some people believe. Everybody in Germany was fed propaganda but not everybody took the bait. This man seems like he was a gentleman warrior with morals in an army that had a lot of evil people within it. I listened to the rise and fall of the third reich before this and it set it up perfectly.

I’ll definitely give this another listen at some point.

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