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The Commissar

Part of the Sven Hassel War Classics series
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A shocking insight into the brutalities faced by ordinary soldiers and the atrocities committed in the name of survival. Dispassionately we stared at the bloody scene. It had become an everyday sight. The 27th Penal Regiment care nothing for Hitler's war.

They fight only to stay alive. But then they uncover the Soviet Army's biggest secret.

A Russian commissar has hidden 30 million dollars of gold somewhere behind enemy lines.

In a madcap scheme, Porta brokers a deal with the commissar: free passage for the Russians in return for a share of the gold.

To find it, Sven and his comrades must be prepared to lie, steal and go behind the lines of the deadly Russian army...

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
1780228112 / 9781780228112
Paperback / softback
21/08/2014
United Kingdom
English
War stories
368 pages
20 cm
Reprint. Translated from the Danish This translation originally published: London: Corgi, 1985.