LISTEN TO 'BLOOD, DUST AND SNOW: DIARIES OF A PANZER COMMANDER'
Audiobook now available world-wide - listen to a sample!
I am more than delighted to announce that the audiobook of ‘Blood, Dust and Snow: The Diaries of a Panzer Commander in Germany and on the Eastern Front’ is available from today! Over 15-hours long and beautifully read by German actor Stephan Goldbach, who some of you might have seen in his role of Untersturmführer Tomas Rigard in the second season of Hunters on Amazon Prime.
The audiobook is now available via Amazon Audible and most other audiobook distribution platforms world wide.
Victors always write the history, but here Robin Schäfer has uncovered a genuine gem from the other side. It's as pacy as you'd expect from an account written within hours of combat, yet Sander's battle is so often for the little things such as a coffee; a chance to wash; or even a prized bottle of cognac. Sander is erudite, yet Schäfer pulls no punches. Sander is sickeningly anti-Semitic, and casually indifferent to the plight of civilians. He talks of his own fate being in the hands of the Almighty while bemoaning half of Europe 'hanging on German shirt tails' for sustenance... invasion has that effect. Hugely accessible thanks to Schäfer's tremendous gift for writing this is, however, a challenging and discomfiting read. The casual reader will find much to engage, but the horrors of a war perpetrated by men corrupted by the evils of Nazism are - rightly - bared here. Bravo, Herr Schäfer. Another important addition to our collective knowledge of war's brutal reality. - via AMAZON reviews.
Has anyone ever questioned the provenance of this? Where is the manuscript? It's just that to my ear Leutnant Sandler is just too perfect a Nazi.
In the chaos of the Eastern Front: How did he get paper? How did he protect his notebooks from harm?
Finally, would linguistic analysis correlate the prose to any living author?
Excuse me, but I just finished re-reading Umberto Eco's The Prague Semetary. A very helpful book for anyone interested in the methods of mis/dis-information.
It's a great listen!