Book Sven Hassel Fans?

[SVD]

Any fans of Sven Hassel's East Front fiction? Sven is more or less a fiction writer, but he claims to have been on the front in a penal unit.

Regardless of his own story, his fiction is somewhat amusing and a good fun read if you don't need a great brain challenge. When I first discovered Sven I also discovered this webiste http://www.svenhassel.info/

 

[Bombardier]

Ive got to confess that i am not the biggest reader and I have not read any of svens books. the website was very interesting though.
cheers mate.

 

[Zofo]

I think I've read all of them at some stage. Apart from his serving on every front in WW2 (often at the same time) they're good fun and have good characters!

 

[tosh66]

Have researched Hassel a little and it's very confusing. There are two trains of thought,
1 He is genuine
2 He is a fantasist whose wife wrote the books who also is a porn model or something along those lines?!?!
"Wheels of Terror" is univerally accepted to be closest to the truth and the other books pure fiction.

 

[mineman65]

I've read couple of his books, don't know about how much truth there is but there's good humour in them, just worth of reading for that.

 

[tam]

Read quite a few during my stay in Germany. I found them to be a good read.

 

[Matzos]

All his books were a good read

 

[tosh66]

All his books have just been re released after a break of about 25 yrs

 

[flash]

every brit legionnair has read them theres a **** load of them in jabouti in the fire base good read if your board or missing home solthum

 

[Bundu Basher]

I remember reading them as paperbacks in the early 1980's!
(While still a studious scholar!)

I did enjoy them then - think I will attempt to a re-read sometime soon and see if my perspective has changed...