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Into the screaming inferno of the Russian Front were thrown the Tank Battalions of Hitler's Penal Regiments - men whose lives were considered expendable by the German High Command. And because they were treated like animals, they learned to live like animals - to steal and cheat in the manner of beasts - to fight, not only the enemy but each other - to die, brutally and bloodily... These were the men sacrificed in the Fuhrer's Russian Offensive...the men of March Battalion. 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. Wounded eight times, he ended the war in a Russian prison camp. He wrote LEGION OF THE DAMNED while being transferred between American, British and Danish prisons before making a new life for himself in Spain. His world war books have sold over 53 million copies worldwide.