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Wheels of terror. “This is a book of horrors, and should be left alone by those prone to nightmares. Sven Hassel’s descriptions of the atrocities committed by both sides are the most horrible indictments of war I have ever read…A great war novel!”. Alan Silitoe.
SVEN HASSEL SITE. Sven Hassel began writing his first novel, LEGION OF THE DAMNED, as a prisoner of war at the end of the Second World War. This led to a series of fourteen books with an unshakeable narrative which draw on his own fight and experiences as a soldier in the German Army.
Sven Hassel was the pen name of the Danish-born Børge Willy Redsted Pedersen (19 April 1917 – 21 September 2012) [1] known for his novels about German soldiers fighting in World War II. In Denmark he used the pen name Sven Hazel. [2]
Sven Hassel. The best-selling military writer returns to his comrades in 27th penal battalion, offering another gritty, realistic view of the ordinary soldier in wartime.
- (2.8K)
- Paperback
The film is based on Danish writer Sven Hassel's 1979 war novel "Wheels of Terror". Hassel was actually part of the German Panzerkorp during the war and most of his novels are based on his experiences or stories he heard during the war, although some dispute the veracity of his work.
- (2.2K)
- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Gordon Hessler
- 1988-02-22
The narrator (Hassel) is serving in a penal panzer regiment. The story starts when the disparate group of unwilling soldiers is training on new tanks and has to assist in rescuing and clearing up after a massive Allied air raid on a northern German city.
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