Comrades of war ebook

Adele Cortese Rossi Translator. Camaradas del frente Kindle Edition. Comrades Of War Paperback. Comrades of War Legion of the Damned, 3. Frontkamerater Hardcover. Sven Hazel. Frontkammerater: Dansk udgave Sven Hazels Krigsroman serie. Radu Pontbriant Translator. Camaradas del frente Paperback. Towarzysze broni Paperback. Published September 22nd by Instytut Wydawniczy Erica. Juliusz Wilczur-Garztecki Translator.

The Roller Conveyor Description of supply lines. Tiny goes looting. Various incidents on the roller conveyor the mad colonel who shoots himself, the driver on his way to Cologne. Attack by 'Rattas' Russian planes. First mention of Lieutenant Ohlsen. Talk about volunteers from Axis countries.

Tiny mistakes a group of Red Cross nurses for a travelling brothel!! Raid by headhunters. Criticism of God. Everybody taken into custody as traitors or deserters! Executions take place including Ewald and the Cologne truck driver. Last minute reprieve for our heroes. Back At The Front Reporting back for duty. Bust up with First Sergeant Barth. Tiny acts the idiot to wind-up 'Iron Herbert' Barth.

Back to the front line and Joseph Porta. Ohlsen takes over from Harder who has been killed. Mission behind Russian lines to pick up prisoners for interrogation.

Tiny gets upset when he gets the blame for not capturing any prisoners. He runs off to the Russian trenches. More bust-ups with Heide. Letters arrive, including one for Tiny who has a rather emotional reaction. Behind Enemy Lines Preparation for patrol behind Russian lines. Discovery of T34s. Tanks start up and move towards German lines. Frantic race back. The Partisans Survivors try to make their way back to safety an S.

Porta and Tiny find stores including a cat. Careful division of supplies by Tiny and Lt Ohlsen. March through forest and swamp. Discovery of Ivans with a truck. Mad drive through forest. Story of Russian girl held prisoner by partisans. Tiny finds the girl and reacts in typical fashion. Girl, Maria, wants revenge against partisans. More talk of what will happen after the war.

Porta explains his plans to open a brothel. Meeting with MPs who are deserters. MPs 'escape' and are found hanged in the forest. Tense moments with the Old Man who knows what has really happened. Death of Maria. Reunion Ohlsen goes on leave for the first time in three years. Goes to Berlin. Finds his house boarded up but wife and child safe at her father's house. Bust-up with his wife, Inge.

His son, Gunni, has been sent to a Nazi home. Ohlsen visits the Nazi camp but can't see his son. Lots of nasty characters in attendance. Description of huge feast. Ohlsen baits the SS by calling them the 'arsch arsch'. Lots of drunken debauchery. Mysterious suicide of SS Major. A Casual Affair Ohlsen almost goes to the Gestapo. First mention of Barcelona Blom. Ohlsen walks in the rain thinking of old comrades.

He meets a woman whose sweetheart was at the front. Seduction scene. Back to the leave train. Scams to get extra leave. Ik had nog niet eerder van deze schrijver gehoord, en ik vind het jammer dat ik bij het 3e deel van de serie ben begonnen. Ik hoop de overige delen nog wel te pakken kunnen krijgen.

Volgens de schrijver heeft hij actief meegevochten aan het oostfront. Een andere Deens auteur schrijft, die Hassel's verleden onderzocht schreef dat hij een informant van de Nazi's in bezet Denemarken was. Ik weet niet wie er gelijk heeft of niet, en doet dat er veel aan toe? Er zijn meerdere schrijvers geweest die e Ik had nog niet eerder van deze schrijver gehoord, en ik vind het jammer dat ik bij het 3e deel van de serie ben begonnen.

Er zijn meerdere schrijvers geweest die een fout verleden hebben. Zoals al eerder door anderen geschreven, de rauwe werkelijkheid, gezien door de ogen van een groep soldaten in een strafbataljon aan het Oostfront. Het verhaal is eigenlijk een festijn van vuist-gevechten, orgies, en zuipfeesten. Zo ver we kunnen weten uit dit boek, hebben de hoofdrolspelers nooit meegedaan aan de wreedheden uit de oorlog, haten ze de Nazi partij en officieren.

Grof, maar eerlijk , zo zou ik dit boek willen betitelen. Jun 25, Artur Coelho rated it really liked it. Jan 18, Phil rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: kids of all ages. This was one of the books from my troubled youth.

Its about a gang of thugs thrown into a penal regiment on the Russian Front because the Nazis considered them 'criminal elements'. One famous leader of the resistance in France once remarked, "Being in jail under this regime is a badge of honor. It opens in a freight car filled with wounded men heading west to the hospital in Hamburg.

Just as the gang starts to recover from their wounds the allies bomb the city, creating a strange sub-plot with a rapist-murderer stalking the ruins. The nightmarish descriptions of the bombing are amazing. Then its back to the front for some more ultra-violence.

Hassel has a whole series of books in the same vein but many of them suffer from crude translation from the original Danish. This is by far the best of the bunch.

If war novels are your thing, this is for you. I hadn't heard of him before. This book was published in , and is part of a series of 14 books that take the same characters through all of World War II. It is a loose collection of stories about a gang of German soldiers that have been wounded and sent to hospital just as the Russian front is collapsing. The stories are all soldier stories: looting, whoring, fighting, stupid I found this one in Adelaide, Australia: it seems Hassel is much more popular in England and Australia than in the US.

The stories are all soldier stories: looting, whoring, fighting, stupid officers, the brutality and pointlessness of the war. The writing is very colorful - very much NOT for the faint of heart or the easily offended. I know from other reading, every event in this book actually happened: no matter how horrifying the story, real people did the same things to other people countless times during the war. The best sustained writing is the story of how the gang found a Jew hiding in a manse they happened across in their journey; how the gang befriended and feasted with him; what happened after an SS troop happened on the same manse.

OK, so the story. Sven and some of the lads are wounded, following on from the end of Wheels of Terror. They spend a few months in Hamburg, getting drunk, fighting, plus the odd rape and murder, reminisce about the front, go back to the front, do the usual trapped behind the lines stuff, then Lt Ohlsen goes on leave to Berlin.

Sadly the prose is repetitive and the characters very comic book. Sven Hassel seems more at home writing about the front line as opposed to anywhere else, of which there wa OK, so the story.

Sven Hassel seems more at home writing about the front line as opposed to anywhere else, of which there was little, and he was at best badly served by his translator's lack of varied descriptive terms, if not his own.

When I was 14 I loved this book, unfortunately it hasn't aged that well. Re-reading this after about 30 years to see if it's still as powerful as it felt then. Well written for the most part, this definitely captures the brutality and horror of war.

Rather spoiled by the knowledge, which I didn't have when first reading it, that, far from being an autobiographical account of the author's exploits during the war, it is entirely a work of fiction written by someone who was jailed for being a petty criminal and Nazi collaborator in Denmark during the war. Sep 19, Anna rated it really liked it Shelves: sven-hassel.

I like Sven Hassel's books very, very much. They show the brutality of war. This time Sven and his comrades spent 4 months in military hospital in Hamburg after being wounded on Eastern front - they spend time on drinking, going to brothels and getting into fights. And then there back on the front. Leste den norske utgaven. Mar 15, Sean Peters rated it really liked it. One of his best books. A group of real characters. Honest and gritty.

Oct 06, Jeff Lewis rated it liked it. The follow up novel to Sven Hassel's aclaimed Wheels of Terror makes no attempt to re-hash his previous work. Search icon An illustration of a magnifying glass. User icon An illustration of a person's head and chest. Sign up Log in. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book.

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