Comrades of War Author:Sven Hassel Because they are not so much people as animals sometimes small, scared, lost as they huddle together in cattle cars wounds gaping tongues swelling even as they lick the moist frost off the walls, each of them wondering if he'll be the next to die before they reach the field hospital. — Sometimes brawling, boozing, robbing and raping as they sweep... more » into Hamburg and glut themselves on life for 1 more day, one wild night.
And sometimes they are heros, pushing through the Russian lines--Tiny, The Legionaire, Sven- all of them knowing they will be massacred, all of them knowing they've lost the war and every shred of their own humanity.« less