Liquidate Paris (Cassell Military Paperbacks) [Paperback]

Sven Hassel (Author)

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Publication Date: April 1, 2007 | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks

From the wartorn steppes of Russia, from the slopes of Monte Cassino, the stunned, bloody remnants of Hitler's armies were gathered to fight the last battle of the German Reich - the battle of the Western Front. And as the Allies advanced upon Paris, the war erupted into its most ruthless, most savage and cruel phase. Across the scarred, corpse-strewn landscape of northern France, the men of the Panzer tank corps retreated - fighting a suicide action as they went...

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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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Cassell (April 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0304366897
• ISBN-13: 978-0304366897
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #745,067 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Generally speaking, it's good., September 24, 2008

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This review is from: Liquidate Paris (Cassell Military Paperbacks) (Paperback)

This is the seventh book written by Sven Hassel, all of them portraying the German characters from the 27th Panzer Regiment, 5th company, 2nd Section. In this book, they are all here: Old Man (Willi Beier), Joseph Porta, Tiny (Wolfgang Creutzfeldt), Sven, Legionnaire (Alfred Kalb), Barcelona Blom, Gregor Martin and Julius Heide. The "guest stars" are company commander Lowe and fellow soldier Gunther (this one never to appear again, Lowe to be killed in "Reign of Hell").

As a brief search in the Internet will inform you, there are controversies about who was Sven Hassel or even who wrote his books (there are 14 of them). Indeed, the general atmosphere and writing style differs so much from book to book that it sometimes seems each one was written by a different person! Anyway, what is important is they are good, entertaining, sometimes vulgar, sometimes tear-jerking, sometimes extremely funny books.

LIQUIDATE PARIS has fewer combat sequences than other books, but even so is a generally good entry in the catalogue. If you read one of the other books and liked it, you'll like this one.