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    Wheels of Terror

    Written by Sven Hassel

    Narrated by Rupert Degas

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    About this audiobook

    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

    Stationed on the Russian Front and now equipped with armoured vehicles, Sven Hassel and his comrades from the 27th Penal Regiment fight on remorselessly...

    All of them should be dead: life expectancy on the Russian Front is measured in weeks. But Sven, Porta, Tiny and The Legionnaire fight to the end, not for Germany, not for Hitler, but for survival.

    WHEELS OF TERROR is a sobering depiction of war's brutalities, and the violence and inhumanity that the history books leave out.

    Read by Rupert Degas

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette UK Audio
    Release dateMay 29, 2014
    ISBN9781409155096
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    • 4/5
      Occasionally, you pick up a book, perhaps in search of some escapist entertainment, with few expectations and find something unexpected. Like buying a ticket and grabbing the gold ring on a ride on a merrygoround. This was one of those books.

      Written in Danish and translated into English, this semi-autobiographical novel is about the author’s experience fighting for the Germans in a Frei Corps Disciplinary Unit, with a group of crude, rude, dangerous, rough, wisecracking misfits and petty criminals a la The Dirty Dozen, who comprise one of the least respected units in the Wehrmacht and their experiences fighting the Russians in the Ukraine during the waning days of WWII.

      Graphic descriptions of the dark side of War, think of a Danish Solzhenitsyn with a black sense of humour.

      Excellent narration by Rupert Degas.