About this title: There were not 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 - each of them wondering if he would be the next to die before reaching the crude operating table...And sometimes brawling, robbing and raping as they swept into ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Fawcett Pub., Inc
Date Published: 1963
Description: Good. 1963 Fawcett paperback. Moderate edge wear. Spine creases. Mild tanning. Clean text. Ship same or next day. More war books in our store. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Corgi, London
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780552113779ISBN:0552113778
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Some wear and creases to cover and spine. Text in English, Danish. 316p.; 18 cm. This translation originally published: London: Corgi, 1968. -Translation of: 'Frontkammerater'. Copenhagen: Grafisk Forlag, 1960. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Fawcett Gold Medal Book
Date Published: 1963
Description: Very Good. Sixth Printing. VG. Softcover, Mass Market size, pictorial wraps, 304 pp, yellow dyes edges, slight edgewear with light creasing to covers, usual age toning to pages and blindstamped, else a clean and tight copy. read more
Edition: 17th Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Corgi Books, London, England, Great Britain, UK
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780552113779ISBN:0552113778
Description: Wraparound Painted Cover! Very Good + Mass Market Paperback. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" Tall. 316 pages. "They were not 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-each of them wondering if he would be the next to die before reaching the crude operating table. And sometimes brawling, robbing and raping as they swept into Hamburg to glut themselves on life for one more day, or ... read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Corgi Books, London, England
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780552113779ISBN:0552113778
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Military/War Light edgewear, tanning pages, square book. They 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 wall-each of them wondering if he would be the next to die before reaching the crude operating table... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cassell
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9781407215068ISBN:140721506X
Description: Good. This book is in GOOD overall condition. It shows signs of having been read and has general light wear to the cover, spine and pages. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Corgi
Date Published: 1968
ISBN-13:9780552078719ISBN:0552078719
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Corgi
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780552113779ISBN:0552113778
Description: Good. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Corgi, U.K.
Date Published: 1971
Description: Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall Covers creased. Edges rubbed. Area of peeling to front cover. Diminishing waterstain to bottom edge of front cover and bottom edge of text. Pages tanned. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Corgi, UK
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780552113779ISBN:0552113778
Description: Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall some creasing and scratching to covers. owners name to bottom outer edge of text block. Inscription to half title. pages browning with some patches of yellowing. Bindings tight. read more
"I like Sven Hassel's books very, very much. They show the brutality of war. This time Sven and his comrades spent 4 months in military hospital in Hamburg after being wounded on Eastern front - they spend time on drinking, going to brothels and getting into fights. And then there back on the front. Great."
"OK.This was one of the books from my troubled youth. Its about a gang of thugs thrown into a penal regiment on the Russian Front because the Nazis considered them 'criminal elements'.One famous leader of the resistance in France once remarked, "Being in jail under this regime is a badge of honor." Although being in this gang of hooligans had a kind of weird criminal cachet, but they are not honorable in the same way Willi Heinrich's tortured soldiers are (Sven Hassel's work resembles Willi Heinrich very much, by the way). It opens in a freight car filled with wounded men heading west to the hospital in Hamburg. Just as the gang starts to recover from their wounds the allies bomb the city, creating a strange sub-plot with a rapist-murderer stalking the ruins. The nightmarish descriptions of the bombing are amazing. Then its back to the front for some more ultra-violence. Hassel has a whole series of books in the same vein but many of them suffer from crude translation from the original Danish. This is by far the best of the bunch. If war novels are your thing, this is for you."
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