Blitzfreeze (Sven Hassel War Classics) Paperback – 17 July 2014

It shows how brutal war is. Both sides had little respect for human life. This book shows how brutal the Russian winter is.

Sven Hassel at his best!

I have trouble with some of the scene shifts, details that seem misplaced in time or just plain wrong, and Tiny's dialect, which I'm tentatively blaming the translator for turning into cockney, but the action, the camaraderie, Porta's shaggy-dog stories, and the overall sense of verisimilitude make this worth a foxhole full of what passes for modern literature. I've given up worrying about how much of Hassel's writing is memoir, second-hand anecdote, or fiction. The books are just too good, zu verdammt gut.

Like sven hassels style of writing really gets you into the feel of the moment and you identify the characters easily

having been an avid reader of sven hassells books when i was much younger and having had all his publications in paperback.i was very much surprised to find that they have lost none of there appeal for me.as i started reading all the characters came back to me,would recommend his stories.once you start reading its impossible to put down.