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It was supposed to be Hitler's glorious conquest of Russia... The 27th Penal Regiment have been ordered to invade the Soviet Union. They are half-starved and ill-equipped. To reach Moscow they must defeat the fearsome Red Army. But instead, they find themselves at the mercy of an even deadlier enemy: the killer cold of the Russian winter. As they advance across the icy wastes, they think only of survival.Tags
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Velika bitka oko Moskve i put kroz Rusiju u drugom svetskom ratu.
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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
- Blitzfreeze
- Original publication date
- 1975
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 839.8 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures Other Germanic literatures Danish and Norwegian literatures
- LCC
- PT8175 .H3536 .J413 — Language and Literature German, Dutch and Scandinavian literatures Danish literature Individual authors or works 1900-1960
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- 13 — Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish
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- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
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- 31
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- 13
