A sudden curtain of silence fell over the burning city. All that could be heard was the steady crackling of flames... Hitler's penal regiments advance on Poland. Himmler has given the order: Warsaw must be razed to the ground. But the Polish Home Army are not willing to give in to the German troops so easily. As the city erupts into an inferno of flames and gunfire, Sven and his comrades find themselves caught between the sadism of the SS and the guerrilla warfare of the Polish Resistance... REIGN OF HELL is a gripping ...
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A sudden curtain of silence fell over the burning city. All that could be heard was the steady crackling of flames... Hitler's penal regiments advance on Poland. Himmler has given the order: Warsaw must be razed to the ground. But the Polish Home Army are not willing to give in to the German troops so easily. As the city erupts into an inferno of flames and gunfire, Sven and his comrades find themselves caught between the sadism of the SS and the guerrilla warfare of the Polish Resistance... REIGN OF HELL is a gripping insight into the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, and the bloodshed that ensued as the Polish tried desperately to liberate themselves from the German occupation.
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This horribly realistic account of the last months of the russo-german war centers on the battle of Warsaw. You'll find all of the familiar Sven Hassel comrades: Porta, the legionnaire, Tiny, Heide, the Old Man, and Hassel himself, thrown into retreat. Hassel describes the day to day actions of he and his comrades as they fight, steal, drink, and gamble their way across Poland. Hassel himself has claimed that much of his books are based on his own as well as his comrades' own experiences which, even when fictionalized, paint an agonizing portrait of war, its effects on the population, and its pointlessness. This is a rare peak into the real German Army and its members who, though usually portrayed as mindless automatons fighting for a dictator they are prepared to die for, are actually normal people with ideas - and agendas - of their own.
