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Their more unorthodox weapons were lengths of steel wire and knives with double-edged blades, and some of their most prized possessions were gold teeth snatched from corpses.

The 'Disciplinary Regiment', a tank company in Hitler's army - without a tank to its name - was fighting a brutal war against the Russians.

A bunch of hardened killers in filthy rags, stinking to high heaven, this company was worth an entire regiment of freshly laundered troops from Breslau.

Guerrilla warfare on the eastern Front was for them a prelude to the bloody massacre of Russian troops who had attacked the German reserves and occupied their headquarters.

Then the 'Disciplinary Regiment' was sent to Hamburg, where their next assignment was guard duty for the bestial Gestapo...

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0752882295 / 9780752882291
Paperback / softback
02/08/2007
United Kingdom
English
War stories
347 p.
18 cm
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Reprint. This translation originally published: London: Corgi, 1971.
Sven Hassel novels have sold 52 million copies worldwide o Sven Hassel novels sold 15 million copies in the UK o Relaunched in 11 countries since 1999 'He is a brilliant storyteller' Washington Post
Sven Hassel novels have sold 52 million copies worldwide o Sven Hassel novels sold 15 million copies in the UK o Relaunched in 11 countries since 1999 'He is a brilliant storyteller' Washington Post FJM War & combat fiction