Customer Reviews
Horror on the Hill - By: Philip Donnelly, 13 Nov 2003 
The hill is Monte Cassino, & the horror is the carnage of Allied attempts to wrest it from the Germansin 1944, among whom are numbered the lads of the 27th Penal Battalion.
A classic Sven Hassel, with all the right ingredients - blood, guts, fear, high comedy & magnificent courage - with the shattered monastery ruins & the seedy streets of wartime Rome as the backdrop. The plot? Defend the hill to the last man.
The outcome? A compelling tale from the master of World War Two pulp fiction.
Enjoy it.
One of the best - By: H. T. Davies, 01 Oct 2003 
This is the one I read first as a schoolboy & it got me started on the others. This is a more 'conventional' war story than the others, with shades of Alistair Maclean as the 27th don SS uniforms to spirit away the monastery's treasures. Sven's leavein Rome is a bit tedious but the action sequences & the general narrative threadin the rest of the book more than make up for it. As usual with the recipes, I'm not sure I'd try starlings & marrow balls at home!
