NEW YORK — Sven Hassel, a Danish-born writer whose pulp novels depicting soldiers’ lives in the German army during World War II — drawn, he said, from his own combat experiences — sold millions of ...

Sven Hassel’s pulp novels achieved something remarkable: They made readers root for the German soldiers of World War II. Loosely based on his own combat experiences, the Danish writer’s 14 books were ...

Andrew Stimpson recalls the work of a novelist whose early books captured the horrors of WWII in the kind of gripping manner that no allied soldier turned writer ever managed If you’ve read something ...