Sven Hassel - Read October 2013
Next book in the Hassel Series. Sven continues in the 27th Panzer Regiment. They fight, love, freeze, bicker in the Russian winter. The battles are confused and vicious. Russian commissars do not come out well from this book. Russian soldiers are in much the same boat as the men of the 27th. Later in the book civilian are caught up in the running battles. There is nowhere for anyone to hide. Death is all around, brutal, pitiless and senseless and yet there are lighter moments. Not many but they arises from the confusion of the battle and pockets of fleeting respite in the arms of his loves.
A bitter indictment of the men who run wars and force men to fight and to the many who enjoy wreaking devastation. There are many of these types on either side, made the worse for the treatment of civilians, young, old, man, woman or child.
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