For the German soldier fighting under Hitler, keeping a diary was strictly forbidden. Thus, Gunter Koschorrek, a fresh young soldier, wrote his notes on any scraps of paper he could find and sewed them into the inside pockets of his winter coat. Left with his mother on his rare visits home, this illegal diary was eventually lost—and did not come to light until several decades later, when Koschorrek reunited with his daughter in America. This remarkable document, a unique day-to-day narrative of the common German soldier's experience, forms the memoir "Blood Red Snow".