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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 forty years later that it came to light and became Blood Red Snow.
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A teenaged foot soldier in the World War II German army recounts his experiences on the Eastern Front from autumn 1942 to spring 1945, presenting a firsthand account of all the major battles from Kursk to Kharkov, which he took part in as a member of the elite Gross Deutschland Division.
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A Stranger to Myself: The Inhumanity of War, Russia 1941-44 is the haunting memoir of a young German soldier on the Russian front during World War II. Willy Peter Reese was only twenty years old when he found himself marching through Russia with orders to take no prisoners. Three years later he was dead. Bearing witness to--and participating in--the atrocities of war, Reese recorded his reflections in his diary, leaving behind an intelligent, touching,...
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Napoleon's surrender and retreat from Moscow in 1812 is a pinnacle of military horror. Of the 600,000 men who crossed into Russia in June of 1812, only 25,000 would survive. Jakob Walter, a conscript soldier, was one of those survivors. His observant diary captures the everyday circumstances that soldiers suffered during the campaign.
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"Hitler claimed that his years as a soldier in the First World War were the most formative years of his life. But the true story of Hitler's time as a soldier on the Western Front has, remarkably, remained a blank spot - until now. Hitler's First War investigates for the first time what really happened to Private Hitler during the First World War - and reveals a man very different from the oe portrayed in his own self-mythologizing account in Mein...
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