The Beast Regiment [Sven Hassel]

[WW2 Fiction] [Pulp] [Nasty]

The Beast Regiment

Sven Hassel

Bantam Books, NY. 1973. Fifth Bantam Paperback. Some yellowing and slight rubbing to front and rear cover, very good.

Hassel is infamous for his hardboiled WW2 pulp, all rendered from the perspective of the Germans. But this is not ideologically driven; in his works, everyone is just fighting to survive, whether they're prison conscripts or citizen draftees. This one also goes by "Monte Cassino" and is a total barn burner. Violent, freaked out, sometimes funny, total misfit literature. Harder to find that you'd think, and well priced here.