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Um dos melhores escritores da II guerra mundial!!!

Sven is the best. Rip.

I had just entered my teens and my dads friend, who worked for Corgi Books gave me a copy of 'BlitzFreeze'. I devoured it! The dark 'gallows' humour that prevailed through out that and the rest of his books kept me entertained for the next few years. The horrors of warfare, the whole Nazi set up and the sheer brutality of survival in some of the theaters of war led me to investigate them personally as I grew up (Casino, Paris, Torgau, Berlin etc), . OK some say it was fiction, but speaking with a now dwindling group of survivors from that era, a number recount the horrors of battle, very similar to what was written. Yes I was sad when a character was killed off, disappointed when one was not. I tend to revisit the books every 8-10 years, just to remind me how brutal war can be. R.I.P and thank you.

Read every book at least twice over from a boy through to my military service. Helped me get through many a lonely night on guard duty. I don't think there was a barracks in the British Army you wouldn't find one of Sven's books……..

I started reading Sven’s books when I was 15 having a cheeky smoke in the shed- the first I read was A Bloody Road to Death. I was hooked and searched bookstores and car boot sales until I had the whole collection. I am 41 now and downloaded them on my kindle to read again. An awesome collection. I have a German Shepard who I named Sven. People often ask me, why did you name your dog after the football manager….. I DON’T THINK SO. RIP Sven and thank you.

Thanks for keeping me entertained from 1980 to around 1985….. I absolutely loved those books.

I read Legion of the Damned and Wheels of Terror in the early 1970s whilst at boarding school in a bleak part of the UK. They were passed around from boy to boy and then back again. Such a terrific writer, funny, compassionate, and at the same time horrifying. I really should read them all again.

I do have all his books then. First read them when I was about 14 and decided 40 years later to get his entire collection.

Thanks to Sven Hassel for his books, and to his family for keeping his legacy alive. I first read Blitzfreeze in 1978, as a young grade 10 school-boy, and together with all of my friends eagerly read each of his novels as they became available. Having served in the military and in combat in the Angolan bush-war in 1980's, I learnt first hand how memories blur, when one's first instinct is to try to stay alive , and how important your comrades are to you. Fights might break out over minor things, but you are always willing to share your toothbrush, razor and even underpants with your comrades. We were always hungry, and drank all alcohol that we could get our hands on. Reading about another young man, who also had to endure horrible things, but survived, and went on to live a full life, was a great inspiration to me personally. I will always be grateful that he had the courage to write about his experiences, and only wish that he could have known how his stories would help another generation of young men on the other side of the world to recover from the madness of war.