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[...]

Sven Hassel and the few surviving men of his unit are posted to Italy, where the armies are locked in battle around the ancient hilltop monastery of Monte Cassino. Hitler has ordered that every position must be held until the last, and every lost position recaptured by counter-attack. In the face of[...]

I had a grenade in my hand. So, no doubt, did the English private. I tore out the pin with my teeth. Lay there and counted. Twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four...It is Hitler's last chance to save The Third Reich...Millions of Allied troops have landed in Normandy. The orders are clear[...]

It was supposed to be Hitler's glorious conquest of Russia...The 27th Penal Regiment has been ordered to invade the Soviet Union. They are half-starved and ill-equipped. To reach Moscow they must defeat the fearsome Red Army. But instead, they find themselves at the mercy of an even deadlier enemy: [...]

'They beat me,' whispers the artillery officer, 'Smashed my teeth in, sent an electric current through me. They want me to confess to something I never did.' Sven Hassel and his comrades are fighting on the Finnish front, facing an arctic winter more ferocious than anything they've ever known. But i[...]

Danger was forgotten, death was forgotten, the war was forgotten. They only knew they had to kill...The figures in khaki were no longer soldiers, no longer men. Sven Hassel and his comrades are once more hurled into the ferocity of the frontline. The Eastern Front is a sight of unprecedented destruc[...]

A sudden curtain of silence fell over the burning city. All that could be heard was the steady crackling of flames...Hitler's penal regiments advance on Poland. Himmler has given the order: Warsaw must be razed to the ground. But the Polish Home Army are not willing to give in to the German troops s[...]

Sextonde dygnet sedan vi lamnat fronten stannade det langa godstaget med ett ryck. Vi raknades bara som gods - soldater i krig. Porta reste sig upp ur kreatursvagn nr 9, tittade ut genom skjutdorren och konstaterade kort: Vi ar i Hamburg-Altona. Gamle tog likgiltigt emot en rapportsedel: 2 plutonen,[...]

"Tolv dygn satt vi på tåget från Hamburg och nu stod vi på rullbanan Pinsk-Gomel. Regementet låg enligt pappren förlagt i Petrikova. Den som en gång varit på en rullbana glömmer det aldrig. I en snörrät linje sträcker den sig mot fronten, en av tusentals hjul och miljontals fötter tillk[...]

"Men en dag, på permission hos vackra Wera, anar Porta plötsligt en möjlighet att välbärgad kunna dra sig ur kriget. med osviklig uppfinningsrikedom sätter han sin helgalna plan i verket.

- Med guld i bagaget köper vi oss ut ur både sovjetparadiset och tusenårskriget, flinar Port[...]

Stalingradin ratkaiseva taistelu on hävitty, ja saksalaiset sotajoukot joutuvat koville. Tappio alkaa näyttää varmalta, mutta natsihallinto ei luovuta. Sven Hassel taistelutovereineen komennetaan rintamalta Hampuriin vartioimaan Gestapon erityisvankilaa. Vankien kohtalot puhuvat karua kieltä Ge[...]