Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. Seventyone years after it ended, the second world war is still the gotto global conflict for hundreds, nay, thousands, of books, movies, tv series, comics, and gungho trigger happy violent computer games. He published his first book, legion of the damned, in 1953. Sven hassel, novelist who depicted nazi soldiers lives.
Sven hassel was the pen name of the danishborn borge willy redsted pedersen 19 april. But tiny, porta, the legionnaire and sven attempt to break out, to fight their way across the frozen steppe. The misfit brigade is a 1987 american television film loosely based on the sven hassel novel wheels of terror. Nov 14, 2012 sven hassel was a remarkable but controversial author who wrote successful novels set on the eastern front in the second world war. He was fortunate enough to see wheels of terror receive a film adaptation in 1987. Alan silitoe it was cold and as we had very little fuel, porta suggested we should play arseslap. Oct 07, 2012 sven hassel, a danishborn writer whose pulp novels depicting grunt life in the wehrmacht during world war ii drawn, he said, from his own combat experiences sold millions of copies.
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