Wheels of Terror [Mass Market Paperback]

Sven Hassel (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Corgi (1970)
• ASIN: B000XYD2HQ
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The book that began the series, April 19, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Wheels of Terror (Hardcover)

I have read many of Sven Hassels works and have found them ALL to be chillingly descriptive and accurate about the real frontline conditions faced by the German Military. These books also reveal the harsh and deadly occurances within the military heirarchy during ww2. I you desire a descriptive and action filled perspective on ww2, I recommend you read this book.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Picaresque adventures in WW2, March 12, 2005

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Kull "the valusian" (Italy) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wheels of Terror (Cassell Military Paperbacks) (Paperback)

Much malignity has been thrown at Hassel's books.

I'd like to point out that ONLY 'Legion of the Damned' is autobiographical.

The rest of the books are works of fiction...even if interspersed with many real anedoctes Hassel/Pedresen picked up during his prison-camp years.

All the 'errors' you can find in the books (wrong years for certain tanks/equipments, the fact that THERE WERE NOT 'PANZER' PENAL UNITS...etc) are DELIBERATE.

They make the story better and wilder...and btw Hassel was disgusted and angry at the Nazi war machine that abused him so bad so he 'retorted' my muddling the details that were oh-so-important to the sadistical officers and cowardly nazi 'pheasants'.

I have ALL Hassel's books except for the one regarding Finland and I always approached them the way you read picaresque adventures...you know thy're far-fetched and credibility-stretching butyou enjoy them for the vivid carachters' depiction

and the cruel humour...not to have sound historical facts from them.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wheels Of Terror, November 13, 2002

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Brad Jones (Kakabeka Falls, Ontario,Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wheels of Terror (Hardcover)

If you enjoy reading war adventure books and you like books that put you right in the middle of the horror and bloodshed, this one is for you.On the back cover there is a warning in red lettering,"This is a book of horrors, and should be left alone by those prone to nightmares.Sven Hassel's descriptions of the atrocities committed by both sides are the most horrible indictments of war I have ever read---Alan Sillitoe--
This book and others by Sven Hassel are true gems that take the reader to a place and time that is horrifying. You feel the fear,and understand the terrors of war as if it is really happening. These books are a true window into the world of the WW2 Russian front at its worst. A definate must read for all war novel enthusiasts who enjoy reading what it was truely like on the Russian front. Non stop action from page 1 through to the end. These books are my all time favorites and I'm sure they will become one of your favorites as well.