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Bloody Road to Death [Hardcover]

Sven Hassel (Author)
4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)


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April 1979
The seasoned killers of Hitler’s 27th Panzer Regiment fight their most savage battle yet, in bestselling author Sven Hassel’s continuation of his wartime saga. With 52 million copies of Hassel’s novels sold worldwide, readers are eager to find out what his band of misfit soldiers are about to do next. Now veterans of the trenches and seasoned front liners, Tiny, Porta, and the rest find themselves in a godforsaken and deadly cactus forest, crawling with snakes, scorpions, and giant ants. It’s a place that reeks of danger and death and when their water rations run out, they come close to madness and murder from thirst.

 

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Text: English, Danish (translation)

About the Author

Born in 1917 in Fredensborg, Denmark, Sven Hassel joined the merchant navy at the age of 14. He did his compulsory year's 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. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 322 pages
  • Publisher: Allison & Busby (April 1979)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0850312361
  • ISBN-13: 978-0850312362
  • Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.8 x 1.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,181,663 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Sven does it again/, September 28, 1999
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This review is from: Bloody Road to Death (Hardcover)
Once again with the familar set of characters, Sven takes us into the horrific world of the German soldier of World War II. It is always refreshing to read of Hassel's experiences during the war, it reminds us that the German soldiers of the war were also men much like us and not the stereotypical Nazi of our mass media.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Best Sven Hassel book of all.
, April 16, 1998
By A Customer
This review is from: Bloody Road to Death (Hardcover)
The Bloody Road To Death must be the funniest of all Sven's novels (and it's definately the one I would make into a film if I had any choice about such things). It's set in Greece mainly but they do get back to Russia by the end.

It has three major chapters one after the other:- The Fleas (Porta's flea ridden furs and their path through the regiment etc), Escort Duty (Tiny and Porta on a wild trip through Europe) and Darjeeling Tea (Porta and Wolf and their black market tea dealing). It's almost incidental that there's a war on. Fantastic stuff.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Refreshingly funny,yet distressingly brutal, August 16, 1999
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This review is from: Bloody Road to Death (Hardcover)
Sven Hassel once again shows us a picture of the Second World War from the "loser's" point of view.In describing the daliy vexations and hardships of the German soldier one can see that regardless of sides that war is a demeaning and depersonalizing business. One ends the book not seeing German soldiers but ordinary men caught in an unpleasant and dehumanizing war.
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