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Consequently, Soldiers of the Damned does manage to muster up a pretty grisly depiction of Second World War gore fare, something which is also bolstered by a classic war film soundtrack that not only adds to the whole WWII feel, but also conjures up much more fear and bloodshed in the audience’s mind than is effectively shown on the screen." [1]
Sven Hassel was the pen name of the Danish-born Børge Willy Redsted Pedersen (19 April 1917 – 21 September 2012) [1] known for his novels about German soldiers fighting in World War II. In Denmark he used the pen name Sven Hazel. [2] He is one of the bestselling Danish authors, possibly second only to Hans Christian Andersen. [3] [4]
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.
The "cursed soldiers" [3] (also known as "doomed soldiers", [4] "accursed soldiers", or "damned soldiers"; Polish: żołnierze wyklęci) or "indomitable soldiers" [5] (Polish: żołnierze niezłomni) were a heterogeneous array of anti-Soviet-imperialist and anti-communist Polish resistance movements formed in the later stages of World War II and in its aftermath by members of the Polish ...
Can we imagine ourselves back on that awful day in the summer of 2010, in the hot firefight that went on for nine hours? Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come ...
Discovering a Whole Field of Dead Americans (video: Soldiers Herd and Hensel recount the grim discovery of the Malmedy Massacre.) Pegrin, David E., First Across the Rhine: The 291st Engineer Combat Battalion in France, Belgium, and Germany
Set during the Civil War, a long way from the front lines, Roberto Minervini’s “The Damned” continues the Italian helmer’s career-long examination of the rifts and affinities between ...
Devil's Guard is a book by George Robert Elford and was published in 1971. The book depicts the story of a former German Waffen-SS officer's string of near-constant combat that begins on World War II's eastern front and continues into the book's focus — the First Indochina War-as an officer in the French Foreign Legion.