*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 freezin
Comrades of War
β Scribed by Sven Hassel
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Group
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 243 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
"Comrades of War" (1960). This volume is a novel of extreme violence and brutality set on the Eastern Front in World War Two. -- Born in 1917 in Fredensborg, Denmark, Sven Hassel joined the merchant navy at the age of 14. He did his compulsory yearβs military service in the Danish forces in 1936 and then, facing unemployment, joined the German army. He served throughout World War II on all fronts except North Africa. Wounded eight times, he ended the war in a Russian prison camp. He wrote LEGION OF THE DAMNED while being transferred between American, British and Danish prisons before making a new life for himself in Spain. His world war books have sold over 53 million copies worldwide.
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