The Commissar (Sven Hassel War Classics)

by Sven Hassel

T. Bowie (Translator)

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A shocking insight into the brutalities faced by ordinary soldiers and the atrocities committed in the name of survival.

Dispassionately we stared at the bloody scene. It had become an everyday sight.

The 27th Penal Regiment care nothing for Hitler's war. They fight only to stay alive.

But then they uncover the Soviet Army's biggest secret. A Russian commissar has hidden thirty million dollars of gold somewhere behind enemy lines.

In a madcap scheme, Porta brokers a deal with the commissar: free passage for the Russians in return for a share of the gold.

To find it, Sven and his comrades must be prepared to lie, steal and go behind the lines of the deadly Russian army...

  • ISBN10 0727812645
  • ISBN13 9780727812643
  • Publish Date 31 October 1985
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 18 October 2003
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Severn House Publishers Ltd
  • Edition New edition
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 368
  • Language English