Comrades of War

DO NOT EXPECT TO LIKE THE PEOPLE IN THIS BOOK—Because they are not so much people as animal—Sometimes small and scared and lost as they huddle together in cattle cars, wounds gaping, tongues swelling even as they lick the moist frost off the walls, each of them wondering if he’ll be the next to die before they reach the field hospital...Sometimes brawling, booting, robbing and raping as they sweep into Hamburg and glut themselves on life for one more day one wild might.And sometimes they are heroes, pushing through the Russian lines—Tiny, the Legionnaire, Sven, all of them knowing that they will be massacred, all of them knowing they’ve lost the war—and every shred of their own humanity.NORWAY: “In an almost magic way Sven Hassel unites the powerful style of Ernest Hemingway with Remarque’s unique way of writing. The unknown soldier of the Second World War has got his monument!”—Morgenavisen, BergenFRANCE: “Sven Hassel has proved to be the classic war book author of the Second World War.”—Tribune Libre, ParisSPAIN: “He is ‘the Danish Hemingway.’”—Diario de Barcelona