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Assignment Gestapo by Sven Hassel
Category: History | Series: Sven Hassel War Classics Ser.
'Frighteningly vivid, a most strongly felt piece of writing.' IRISH TIMES After months of fighting a savage war on the Eastern Front, the 27th Penal Regiment - men considered little more than criminals - are joined by German reserves. A garrison has been attacked and occupied by Russian troops. The Germ ...Show more
BLITZFREEZE by HASSEL, SVEN
Category: Fiction | Series: Sven Hassel War Classics Ser.
A shocking insight into the realities of war, the conditions endured by ordinary soldiers and their unwavering solidarity. It was supposed to be Hitler's glorious conquest of Russia... The 27th Penal Regiment has been ordered to invade the Soviet Union. They are half-starved and ill-equipped. To reach ...Show more
Comrades of War by Sven Hassel
Category: Fiction | Series: Sven Hassel War Classics Ser.
There were not so much people as animals. Sometimes small and frightened, huddling together in cattle cars, wounds gaping, tongues swelling even as they licked the moist frost from the walls...Grievously wounded - having survived the operating table and the perilous journey West on a freezing freight tr ...Show more
Court Martial by HASSEL, SVEN
Category: Fiction | Series: Sven Hassel War Classics Ser.
'They beat me, ' whispers the artillery officer, 'Smashed my teeth in, sent an electric current through me. They want me to confess to something I never did.' Sven Hassel and his comrades are fighting on the Finnish front, facing an arctic winter more ferocious than anything they've ever known. But if ...Show more
Legion of the Damned by Sven Hassel
Category: Fiction
The famously horrific war novel set on the Russian Front Legion of the Damned was the first of 14 novels written by Sven Hassel, a Danish volunteer who served in the German army throughout World War II. Never before had violence been described in such hideously graphic detail; it was a far cry from Brit ...Show more
Legion of the Damned by Sven Hassel
Category: Fiction | Series: Sven Hassel War Classics Ser.
Sven Hassel's iconic war novel about the Russian Front. 'An extraordinary book, which has captured the attention of all of Europe' - New York Times 'Legion of the Damned is an incredible picture of totalitarianism, of stupefying injustice... He is graphic, at times brilliantly so, but never brutal or ...Show more
Liquidate Paris by Sven Hassel
Category: Fiction
The famously horrific war novel set on the Western Front.
Liquidate Paris by Sven Hassel
Category: Fiction | Series: Sven Hassel War Classics Ser.
LIQUIDATE PARIS shows the eruption of the Second World War in its most brutal and cruel phase, as allied troops advance upon Paris and the penal regiment retreat. I had a grenade in my hand. So, no doubt, did the English private. I tore out the pin with my teeth. Lay there and counted. Twenty-one, twen ...Show more
March Battalion by Sven Hassel
Category: Fiction | Series: Sven Hassel War Classics Ser.
Danger was forgotten, death was forgotten, the war was forgotten. They only knew they had to kill...The figures in khaki were no longer soldiers, no longer men. Sven Hassel and his comrades are once more hurled into the ferocity of the frontline. The Eastern Front is a sight of unprecedented destruction ...Show more
Monte Cassino by Sven Hassel
Category: Fiction | Series: Sven Hassel War Classics Ser.
The thunder of the guns could be heard in Rome, 170 miles away...Having survived the horrors of the Eastern Front, the 27th Penal Regiment are posted to Italy. Hitler has ordered that every position must be held to the last, and every lost position recaptured by counter-attack. Monte Cassino - a major l ...Show more
Monte Cassino by Sven Hassel
Category: Military
Sven Hassel and his surviving comrades are posted to Italy for the horrific Battle of Monte CassinoSven Hassel and the few surviving men of his unit are posted to Italy where the armies are locked in battle around the ancient hilltop monastery of Monte Cassino. Hitler has ordered that every position mus ...Show more
O. G. P. U. Prison by Sven Hassel
Category: Fiction | Series: Sven Hassel War Classics Ser.
The Russian uses his machine pistol like a scythe. Feldwebel remains standing for a fraction of a second. The rain of bullets pours into him, making him twitch violently. He falls to the floor. The Russian grins. There is no doubt that he is enjoying himself. Sven Hassel and his comrades are ordered ...Show more