Reign of Hell

by Sven Hassel

Legion of the Damned (9)

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Burning, looting, raping, murdering, Hitler's Penal Regiment advanced on the centre of Warsaw leaving in their wake a bloody trail of death and destruction. And against the Fuhrer's expendable battalions, for whom life had no meaning, the battle for Warsaw became an inferno.

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Spaljivanje, pljačkanje, silovanje, ubijanje... Hitlerov kazneni odred napreduje prema središtu Varšave ostavljajući za sobom krvav trag smrti i uništenja. Ubijali su bez razlike: Poljak ili Nemac, muškarac, žena ili dete - svakog ko bi im se našao na putu. Jer se Himler zarekao da će Varšava biti sravnjena sa zemljom - makar za to trebalo dovući svakog nemačkog vojnika! Za show more Firerove bataljone, za koje život nije imao nikakvog značaja, bitka za Varšavu postala je pravi košmar - beskrajno Carstvo pakla... show less
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Sven Hassel was born Sven Pedersen in Fredensborg, Denmark on April 19, 1917. He joined the Danish merchant navy at age 14 and served a mandatory stretch in the Danish military before joining the German army in 1937. He adopted his mother's maiden name, Hassel, when he began writing. His first novel, The Legion of the Damned, was published in show more 1953. His other works include Assignment Gestapo, Liquidate Paris, Blitzfreeze, O. G. P. U. Prison, and The Commissar. He died on September 21, 2012 at the age of 95. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Canonical title
Reign of Hell
Original publication date
1973
Dedication
This book is dedicated to the Unknown Soldier and to all the victims of the Second World War, in the hope that never again will politicians plunge us into the irresponsible lunacy of mass murder.

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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
DDC/MDS
839.813Literature & rhetoricGerman & related literaturesOther Germanic literaturesDanish and Norwegian literaturesDanishDanish fiction
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PT8175 .H3536 .R4Language and LiteratureGerman, Dutch and Scandinavian literaturesDanish literatureIndividual authors or works1900-1960
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