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Legion of the Damned (Legion of the Damned #1)

Sven Hassel

Paperback | Pages: 256 pages

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Title	:	Legion of the Damned (Legion of the Damned #1)
Author	:	Sven Hassel
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 256 pages
Published	:	August 14th 2003 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson (first published January 1st 1953)
Categories	:	War. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Military Fiction

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Sven Hassel's iconic war novel about the Russian Front.

'An extraordinary book, which has captured the attention of all of Europe' - New York Times

'Legion of the Damned is an incredible picture of totalitarianism, of stupefying injustice... He is graphic, at times brilliantly so, but never brutal or bitter. He is, too, a first rate storyteller' - Washington Post

Convicted of deserting the German army, Sven Hassel is sent to a penal regiment on the Russian Front. He and his comrades are regarded as expendable, cannon fodder in the battle against the implacable Red Army. Outnumbered and outgunned, they fight their way across the frozen steppe...

This iconic anti-war novel is a testament to the atrocities suffered by the lone soldier in the fight for survival.

Sven Hassel's unflinching narrative is based on his own experiences in the German Army. He began writing his first novel, Legion of the Damned in a prisoner of war camp at the end of World War Two.

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Original Title:	De Fordömtes Legion
ISBN:	0304366315 (ISBN13: 9780304366316)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Legion of the Damned #1

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Ratings: 4 From 3229 Users | 135 Reviews

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At first as i started to read this i did not know it was an autobiography, the book started out good, but when it hit dialogue heavy "romantic" parts, to call it boring would be being kind. For it was painful to read. The dialogues were so stale and akward that it felt unnatural. But as it dawned on me, just what it was i was reading, that it was indeed an autobiography, as i rememberd that the book itself was written while Sven Hassel sat in a Prisoner of War prison for treachery against the

I'd always avoided these books because the covers put me off, they always seem a bit 'Yay the SS!' Hence my surprise when the book was actually extremely condemnatory of the SS and the whole German regime at the time.So quite why the book designers decided to put Sven HaSSel emblazoned in bold on the cover I do not know. The guy clearly hated the SS, in fact he recounts with relish the number of times on the Eastern Front that the German army and Russians would stop shooting at each other for a

This book shows the true, stupid face of totalitarianism and the terrible price that has to be paid by the warriors...sad but excellent!

This was considerably better than I anticipated. The Sven Hassel books were very popular in Britain in the early '70s. They all had very lurid covers with the SS of Hassel shown in the German SS font. I assumed these books would be all violence and derring-do. While there is quite a bit of that, there is also much humour (some of it almost Wodehousian) and serious, sometimes disturbing descriptions of life and warfare under the Nazi regime. I know that there is debate about just how much of

A guilty pleasure - my dad had these books on this shelf for years and I'd peek at them, for some reason they seemed forbidden.They are a fun read, a kind of WW2 pulp fiction, all from the perspective of a German penal unit. Wild, realistic most the time, and oddly poignant for such a tale.



This surprised me a little. Having seen the lurid covers, I was expecting a Hassel book to be cartoon tales of battle and Jerry derring do. Was pleasantly surprised to find a thoughtful, more measured approach lurking beneath the whole artifice. I was reminded in many ways of Spike Milligan's war volumes, with the whole idea of war dissected and viewed as hopeless, mundane and forlorn. There was action and battle, but only as background, the vast majority of the novel deals with the sadness and