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SS Assault Regiment Wotan at the beginning of the War. At the end of The Phoney War. The Vulture and Major Horst Geier will lead the SS Regiment against a Belgian stronghold. I read a number of these pulp war stories when I was younger and impression
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Having enjoyed the first Matthew Hawkwood novel, I decided to give the second outing a go—and ended up devouring it in just two days. The plot is fast-paced, dark, and populated by some truly unpleasant characters. Our hero, Matthew Hawkwood, is an ex ...more |
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| Another novel I read some time ago—and a Bernard Cornwell story that’s a little different from his usual historical fare. This one is a thoroughly enjoyable modern thriller. The other yachting novel of his is Wildtrack, and I often find myself mixing ...more | |
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| This was so very funny - the narration, the dialogue, the whole lot was a laugh a paragraph. From a man protesting about a new road being built through his house, we are whisked off on a space journey of laughs and surprises. If you like a good giggl ...more | |
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| I think it was the image of the British Free Corps (Britisches Freikorps) that court my attention. I know they existed, but there were not many of them. The title - Judas Battalion and the image stopped me in my tracks when in the bookshop. Even thou ...more | |
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| A compelling story of a young German soldier and his fellow students who join the army to fight in the Great War for Germany. They are stationed on the Western Front. Gradually the patriotic fervour of national pride begins to cloud as the harsh real ...more | |
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Schirmer's Headhunters by Leo Kessler SS Assault Regiment Wotan have run out of WWII and have been on the losing side of a war. Most have fled to join the French Foreign Legion and are now in French Indo-China fighting against the Veit-Ming. Ex-SS Colo ...more |
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| Sven Hassel stories seem to have a mixture of everything. They can be horrific and vile under conditions of a savage conflict. They can also be very funny because his friends are wonderfully portrayed in his first person singular narration. This is p ...more | |
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| This was the first Andre Norton book that I read. I was about thirteen or fourteen at the time. I did not realise that the Author was a lady. I just thought the person an American man with a French sounding name. The reason is that it is very young m ...more | |
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| This has to be my most favourite of Edmund Cooper novels and he has written a few good ones. We are once again in a post-apocalyptic Britain. This is often Edmund Coopers type of brave new world. Each apocalypse is a different type of thing in most o ...more | |
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| A lovely anthropomorphic animal society invented story. I often used to be reminded of this novel when I saw a weasel on a regular basis. It was in the fens where I live and work. I would pull into a regular layby along a country drove for a morning ...more | |
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