Wheels of Terror, Sven Hassel
Wheels of Terror, Sven Hassel
List: $23.99 | Sale: $16.79
Club: $11.99

Wheels of Terror

Author: Sven Hassel

Narrator: Rupert Degas

Unabridged: 10 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/29/2014

Synopsis

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 Silitoe

Stationed 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 them should be dead: life expectancy on the Russian Front is measured in weeks. But Sven, Porta, Tiny and The Legionnaire fight to the end, not for Germany, not for Hitler, but for survival.

WHEELS OF TERROR is a sobering depiction of war's brutalities, and the violence and inhumanity that the history books leave out.

Read by Rupert Degas

(p) 2014 Orion Publishing Group

About Sven Hassel

Born in 1917 in Fredensborg, Denmark, Sven Hassel joined the merchant navy at the age of 14. He did his compulsory year's military service in the Danish forces in 1936 and then, facing unemployment, joined the German army. He served throughout World War II on all fronts except North Africa. When the war ended in 1945 he was transferred between Russian, American and French prison camps, and upon returning to Denmark, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for treason. He began writing LEGION OF THE DAMNED during his time as a prisoner of war. His fourteen World War II books, which draw on his own encounters and experiences as a soldier, have sold over 53 million copies worldwide and have been published in more than 50 countries. He peacefully passed away in Barcelona in 2012, where he had resided since 1964.

About Rupert Degas

Rupert Degas has narrated over a hundred audiobooks. He has recorded a diverse range of authors, from Andy McNab, James Patterson, Wilbur Smith and Chris Ryan to children's authors such as Derek Landy, Darren Shan, Jamie Rix and Philip Pullman. He has narrated books by Patrick Rothfuss, Haruki Murakami, Mervyn Peake, Rose Tremain and Cormac McCarthy as well as recording classics from Kafka, Conan-Doyle, Lovecraft and Wilde. Rupert has lent his voice to numerous cartoons, including Mr Bean, Robotboy, Gumball, Thomas & Friends and Bob the Builder and has performed in over fifty radio productions for BBC Radio 4, including The Brightonomicon and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He spent eighteen months in the West End performing in Stones in his Pockets and was in the original London cast of the smash-hit comedy The 39 Steps.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Andy

"Wheels of Terror" by Sven Hassel. (9780297609766) Horrific tale of a fringe Russian military in WW2. "We tore through a village without either living people or animals. A few houses were burning and some civilians lay dead on the road."......more

Goodreads review by Sam

I won my copy of Wheels of Terror from goodreads. An interesting graphic novel.......more

Goodreads review by Marko

I just didn’t get this album. The art was not great and the short stories probably work better in the original book, which I haven’t read. The colouring created a nice desperate atmosphere, but the actual drawings were too clumsy and silly to describe in a believable way the horrors of war. As I said,......more

Goodreads review by Adeline

Competition winner From Good Reads......more

Add to Cart
Add to Wish List