“Svejk humour and Remarque intelligence – but not for people with weak nerves” …The World of the Book, magazine for Danish Libraries.
“This can only, in all its shuddering horror, have been written by a man, who himself has been in hell. And there is something beautiful in the description of the togetherness between the soldiers, who increasingly give up on finding a path of hope and meaning in this insane murder in which they participate, until they themselves quash, spike and burn to death” …Otto Gelsted, Land og Folk, newspaper of the Danish Communist Party.
“Sven Hassel´s way of writing is uncommon and very undaunted” …Professor Hans Brix, Berlingske Aftenavis.