To write Red Snow in Winter, Max Eastern drew on the stories his father told him about being an intelligence office during World War II. He also read extensively.
Books Read
Baerlein, Henry. The March of The Seventy Thousand
Babcock, Michael. The Stories of Attila the Hun’s Death
Baker, Alan. Invisible Eagle: The History of Nazi Occultism
Berrey, L. and M. van den Bark. The American Thesaurus of Slang
Bickers, Richard. Friendly Fire
Bloch, Michael. Ribbentrop
Bracher, Karl Dietrich. The German Dictatorship
Bradley, John F.N. The Czechoslovak Legion in Russia 1914-1920
Brickhill, Paul. The Great Escape
Brinkley, David. Washington Goes to War
Brooks, Geoffrey. Hitler’s Terror Weapons
Broszat, Martin. The Hitler State
Burrell, Brian. Combat Weapons
Casdorph, Paul. Let the Good Times Roll
Chamberlain, Peter. Allied Pistols, Rifles and Grenades
Cosmas, G. and A. Cowdrey. Medical Service in the European Theater of Operations
Craig, Gordon A. “The German Foreign Office from Neurath to Ribbentrop” in Gordon Craig and Felix Gilbert. The Diplomats 1919-1939
Crouch, Howard. U.S. Small Arms of World War 2
Dear, I.C.B. ed. The Oxford Companion to the Second World War
Dickson, Paul. War Slang
Dotsenko, Paul. The Struggle for the Liberation of Siberia
Dupuy, R. Ernest. Perish by the Sword
Durovecz, Andrew. My Secret Mission
Eberlein, Harold. Historic Houses of George-Town and Washington City
Fic, Victor. The Bolsheviks and the Czechoslovak Legion
Finnegan, John Patrick. Military Intelligence
Galantai, Maria. The Changing of the Guard
Geiger, Jeffrey. German Prisoners of War at Camp Cooke, California
Genizi, Haim. America’s Fair Share
Gerdes, Louise, ed. The 1940’s
Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas. The Occult Roots of Nazism
Gordon, Yefin & D. Khazanov. Soviet Combat Aircraft of the Second World War
Graham, Katharine ed. Katharine Graham’s Washington
Gray, Randal. Chronicle of the First World War
Greene, Suzanne Ellery. Books for Pleasure. Popular Fiction 1914-1945
Haythornthwaite, Philip J. The World War One Source Book
Heald, Edward T. Witness to Revolution
Hessen, Robert, ed. Berlin Alert: The Memoirs and Reports of Truman Smith
Hoensch, Jorg. A History of Modern Hungary
Hogg, Ian. Pistols of the World
Imrey, Ferenc. Through Blood and Ice
Kendall, Park. Dictionary of Service Slang
Knox, Donald. Death March: The Survivors of Bataan
Konings, Chris. Queen Elizabeth at War
Lande, Nathaniel and Andrew. The Cigar Connoisseur
Large, David. Berlin
Lincoln, W. Bruce. The Conquest of a Continent
Melchior, Ib. Case by Case: A U.S. Army Counterintelligence Agent in World War II
Millar, James R., ed. Encyclopedia of Russian History
Miller, William and David Hutchings. Transatlantic Liners at War
Mollo, Andrew. Army Uniforms of World War 2
Mollow, Andrew. The Armed Forces of World War II
Myatt, Frederick. Pistols and Revolvers
Naujoks, Arthur O. The last great secret of the Third Reich
New York Times: 1.2.44, p. BR18
Pereira, Norman G.O. White Siberia
Pipes, Richard. The Russian Revolution
Pluth, Edward John. The Administration and Operation of German prisoner of war camps in U.S. during World War II, Ph.D. thesis, Ball State, 1970
Pope, Stephen and Elizabeth-Anne Wheal. Dictionary of the First World War
Quinn, Tom. Tales of the Old Soldiers
Readers Digest. The World at Arms
Ready, J. Lee. World War Two: Nation by Nation
Regan, Geoffrey. Backfire: A History of Friendly Fire
Robin, Ron. Barbed-wire College
Romilly, Esmond. Boadilla
Romsics, Ignac. Hungary in the Twentieth Century
Satterfield, Archie. The Home Front: An Oral History of the War Years in America 1941-45
Shirer, William. Berlin Diary
Shrader, Charles. Amicide: The Problem of Friendly Fire in Modern War
Shukman, Harold. Stalin’s Generals
Simpson, Christopher. Blowback: America’s Recruitment of Nazis and its Effects on the Cold War
Smith, Arthur L. War for the German Mind
Thomas, Hugh. The Spanish Civil War
Tupper, Harmon. To the Great Ocean
Ungváry, Krisztián. The Siege of Budapest
Weitz, John. Hitler’s Diplomat
Whittingham, Richard: Martial Justice: The Last Mass Execution in the U.S
Wilkinson, Frederick. A Source Book of World War I Weapons and Uniforms
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Books Consulted
Acton, Edward et al, ed. Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution 1914-1921
Anderson, Karen. Wartime Women: Sex Roles, Family Relations and the Status of Women during WW 2
Bobrick, Benson. East of the Sun
Hartmann, Susan M. The Home Front and Beyond: American Women in the 1940’s
Heide, Robert. Home Front America: Popular Culture of the WW II Era
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Kahn, Arthur: Experiment in Occupation: Witness to the Turnabout Anti-Nazi War to Cold War
Hudgins, Sharon. The other side of Russia
Kruger, Arnd. The Nazi Olympics
Laffin, John. On the Western Front
Miller, Nathan: Spying for America
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