The Books of Sven Hassel

[That Jekka Gal]

A mainstay of my 3 years boarding at a convent back in the early 80s.

According to wiki he is second only to Hans Christian Anderson in Danish literature. Had no idea.

Anyone else a fan?

 

[wolfie138]

Sven Hassel and convents, two things i thought i'd never see together in a sentence.

read a load of them when i was younger, lost track of how many he actually wrote. was a film done of one, IIRC

 

[That Jekka Gal]

Sven Hassel and convents, two things i thought i'd never see together in a sentence.

read a load of them when i was younger, lost track of how many he actually wrote. was a film done of one, IIRC

The Misfit Brigade. The Misfit Brigade is a 1987 American television film loosely based on Sven Hassel's novel Wheels of Terror.

 

[FlamBango]

loved them back in my school days. People criticise them for not being "real" and historically inaccurate but so what, the guy was there and he embellished the situations a bit. Who cares. It was interesting to find some of his photos online and put faces to names.

 

[Uther]

Loved his books when I was a kid.

 

[Mr Badger]

I also read them when I was at school. Didn't know they were popular with girls though.

 

[Terminal_Boy]

Read them all in the late 1980s. Good, gritty, switch your brain off stories.

 

[Vimes]

I was an avid reader, when I could find them, of his series of books around the late 70's.
At some point I might be tempted to find them again, this time reading them in order.
His own character, Sven, not necessarily being central to any of the books, iirc.