by Sven Hassel · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401909542
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«Monte Cassino» is Sven Hassel's war novel about the 1944 Battle of Cassino, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (291 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows a German disciplinary battalion during the Battle of Cassino in 1944, when the Benedictine abbey atop the hill became the scene of intense World War II fighting between German and Allied troops. Hassel portrays the horror of the front with unflinching realism and the camaraderie among the soldiers.
Gran Reno Collection, number 54. Translated by Alfredo Crespo. 1984 edition with illustrated dust jacket.
For readers of war and historical fiction, interested in World War II and the experience of soldiers at the front.
Sven Hassel was the pen name of the Danish-born Børge Willy Redsted Pedersen known for his bestselling novels about German soldiers fighting in World War II. In Denmark he used the pen name Sven Hazel. He is one of the bestselling Danish authors, possibly second only to Hans Christian Andersen.
