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SS General (2007)

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030436634X (ISBN13: 9780304366347)
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English
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cassell

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Do you know haow hard it is to find these books?I mean if your like me and wont buy books online for fear of reciving a credit card bill that resembles the national debt in size and magnatude. Well the answer is extreamly hard. The only other Sven Hassel book I have found was a beat up copy of 'Reign of Fire' someone carelessly left on their coffee table, and which I aquired after a convient diversion created by the family dog. The books are quite good. Sometimes funny, sometimes horrible, sometimes exposing the stupidity of man. Quite an enjoyable read. BUT and it is a big but, like J-los or perhaps an elephants. If your a person like myself, by which I mean dosnt like runners or sneakers but prefers boots, then you may look somewhat suspicious reading somthing with a cover with the SS erm... SS sign in the authers name.So my advice, get a dust cover of some other less threatening and just plain awful book like 'department 19' A truly abismal book that on the one hand promotes the idea that you shouldnt judge a book by its cover by making Frankinstiens monster (named Frankinstien for conveince, I would have gone with somthing less suspicous but thats just me) a good guy but at teh same time implies that all irish people are untrustworthy drunks only fit to build railroads from London to the god awful North of England. What Im trying to say of course is, dont read Department 19 its crap. In SS General your treated like a grown up who knows the score and you dont see hardened murdeours dudes crying over some tosspot they could care less about in all fairness. AND another thing! In department 19 were supost belive that the main guy is awesome cuz his dad was awesome and his dad before him. ie the dudes good at killing vampires because obviously murdering vampires is a genetic skill that is passed down via the spearm. So how did his grand pappy get so good? The answer is obvious to me and would have made a good flash back. The guys granddad is jack teh ripper. Thats why hes so good at teh killing.What I learned from this book:Sunglasses are needed more that I realised in the Russian winter.

April 19, 1917 — Barcelona September 21, 2012. Nice succinct description from Wikipedia - "Involves the 27th (Penal) Panzer Regiment composed of expendable soldiers - sentenced criminals, court-martialed soldiers and political undesirables." "It was no joyride, being in a motorised sledge driven by Porta. The thing weighed three tons and he flung it up and down, from side to side, with the same recklessness as if he were on a car at a funfair. We shot up hills like fire-balls from the cannon's mouth and fell straight down the other side, landing with a spine-jarring crash on the ground. Porta laughed so much that he several times lost all control and we tore through the snow at seventy or eighty miles per hour, the wind cutting across our faces as we clutched the sides of the sledge and prayed, our faces green with suppressed vomit."

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I came across name Sven Hassel, while reading some review on Leo Kessler´s book and grabbed SS General. The book is written in crispy language with all gruesome of hunger, war, winter and Stalingrad. Group of soldier from penal regiment was stuck in the horrid eastern front and like a miracle they found the way out. General SS who saw no point in fanatical and useless deaths in Stalingrad pulled group of survivors and lead them across the steppe to the safety. The story is very strong and surprising at some points.
—Matimate

I had limped along with my well-thumbed copy of 'Comrades Of War' for years before one day, in a used book store in Burbank, I encountered this and several other Sven Hassel novels in the dusty, cluttered shelves. Until the internet Hassel's books were a lucky find. This was a lucky find. It places the gang, Sven, Tiny, the Legionaire, Porta, the Old Man and the rest in Stalingrad. They're surrounded. They're starving. They've been ordered not to retreat. Bad scene. They are rescued by an SS General (hence the title) who leads a column of ragged soldiers across the frozen steppes, through the Russian Army to finally reunite with the Wehrmacht which has retreated far to the west. In all these books, Hassel makes you feel like you are marching along with the gang to their inevitable deaths, which never seem to happen to the main characters, although the incidental ones get blow to bits or executed by the military police, who are a constant enemy presence in these books. Exciting, page turning, brutal, violent. Great.
—Phil

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