Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Sven Hassel, R. I. P.

guardian.co.uk: Sven Hassel, who has died aged 95, wrote 14 massively popular novels about life in the wartime German army. His books – including Legion of the Damned, Monte Cassino and Liquidate Paris – have been translated into 25 languages and Hassel found his biggest success in the UK, where readers consumed 15m of his worldwide total of 53m books sold.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

So...in England they eat his books rather than reading them?

Interesting.

Jeff