"De senaste dagarna har Sven försökt att vara som vanligt. Men det är som att han har haft en mask för ansiktet. En hård mask av sten."Sven längtar tills skidbacken öppnar så att han kan åka snowboard med Josef och kompisgänget. Han längtar också efter att mamma ska komma hem så att de kan fira jul ihop. Men plötsligt får Sven ett meddelande som gör honom riktigt ledsen. Mamma säger att hon inte kan komma hem till jul längre. Varför måste just hon jobba så långt bort? Och hur ska Sven hant...

"Svens öron blir röda och kinderna varma. Han kunde inte stoppa orden. Det blev ett ljug."Hockeykillen Axel ska ha kalas och Sven vill inte gå. Men det vågar han inte säga. Istället hittar han på att han ska resa bort, när han egentligen ska åka snowboard i backen hemma. Men vad ska han göra när han ser Axel åka rätt in i ett träd?Böckerna om Sven passar till högläsning, eller för den som precis börjat läsa själv.

"Det hugger till i Svens mage. Det borde vara han som går hem med Axel, tänker han. Som vanligt."Josef är ny i klassen. Han är från Syrien och alla klasskompisar tycker att det är roligt. Utom Sven, som är avundsjuk på att alla hellre vill vara med Josef än åka snowboard med honom. En dag blir Josef av med en av sina grejer. Sven vet var den är. Ska han säga något?Böckerna om Sven passar till högläsning, eller för den som precis börjat läsa själv.

Sven Hassel's iconic anti-war novel about the Russian Front.'An extraordinary book, which has captured the attention of all of Europe' NEW YORK TIMES'An incredible picture of totalitarianism, of stupefying injustice . . . Hassel is a first-rate storyteller' WASHINGTON POSTConvicted of deserting the German army, Sven Hassel is sent to a penal regiment on the Russian Front. He and his comrades are regarded as expendab...

Sven Hassel's ultimate tank warfare novel.'This is a book of horrors, and should be left alone by those prone to nightmares. Sven Hassel's descriptions of the atrocities committed by both sides are the most horrible indictments of war I have ever read ... A great war novel!' Alan SilitoeStationed on the Russian Front and now equipped with armoured vehicles, Sven Hassel and his comrades from the 27th Penal Regiment fight on remorselessly...All of the...

Sven Hassel's iconic novel about the Battle for Monte Cassino.The thunder of the guns could be heard in Rome, 170 miles away...Having survived the horrors of the Eastern Front, the 27th Penal Regiment are posted to Italy. Hitler has ordered that every position must be held to the last, and every lost position recaptured by counter-attack.Monte Cassino - a major look-out post on the German defensive line - is under attack. In the face of ove...

SS GENERAL is the definitive Stalingrad novel, a gripping portrait of war's brutal realities.It was said that Stalingrad had been burning since August, ever since the first German bombs were dropped...Sven Hassel and his comrades are plunged into the maelstrom of Stalingrad.Radio Moscow reports that one German soldier dies every minute.Trapped by the Russian counter-attack, starving soldiers must resort to cannibalism to survive. Bu...

Holt Sellers isn’t looking for love. A single dad, he retired from hockey and moved to his hometown of Sven’s Beard for a fresh start. He stays plenty busy coaching youth hockey, figuring out how to braid his daughter’s hair and learning how to cook. Problem is, the chef teaching him cooking basics is his longtime friend’s younger sister, who tests his resolve to stay single every time she turns her beautiful smile his way.Shea Grady has a life. Honestly, she does. It just so happe...

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 so easily.As the city erupts into an inferno of flames and gunfire, Sven and his comrades find themselves caught between the sadism of the SS and the guerrilla war...

A sobering portrait of the absurdity of the Nazi regime and the atrocities committed by Hitler's secret police.'Frighteningly vivid, a most strongly felt piece of writing' IRISH TIMESAfter months of fighting a savage war on the Eastern Front, the 27th Penal Regiment - men considered little more than criminals - are joined by German reserves.A garrison has been attacked and occupied by Russian troops. The German soldiers have been slaughtered. Sven H...

LIQUIDATE PARIS shows the eruption of the Second World War in its most brutal and cruel phase, as allied troops advance upon Paris and the penal regiment retreat.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.

There were not so much people as animals. Sometimes small and frightened, huddling together in cattle cars, wounds gaping, tongues swelling even as they licked the moist frost from the walls...Grievously wounded - having survived the operating table and the perilous journey West on a freezing freight train - Sven Hassel and his comrades find themselves behind the lines in a Hamburg hospital.The Reich is a hotbed of lies, betrayal and propaganda. Disgusted by the Na...