Where do these go?

[H_P_Saucecraft]

I have a Mayflower war-set pulp (Brandenburg Division) & a Sphere war-set pulp (Panzer Platoon: Death Ride) to post threads on, the question is where to put them, as they're not horror. Should they just go in the Mayflower & Sphere section, or is there a more war related section?

Thanks in advance.

[dem bones]

hi Dave

there wasn't a War section so i just added one below the Vault of Sci-Fi dept. Justin's given WWII pulps considerable coverage in Paperback Fanatic, so we probably should've jumped that bandwagon ages ago.

[H_P_Saucecraft]

Nice one, dem - thanks . Have added threads for them now.

[justin]

The final printed version was a bit different, but here were my notes for the non-kessler/Hassel pulps..K

Suspect Angus Wells and Chris Lowder would have had their sticky mitts on some of these...

Gunther Lutz
Panzer Platoon series at Sphere
Blitzkreig! 1977
Invade Russia! 1977
Blood and Ice 1978
Support Rommel 1979
Death Ride 1980
Attack Anzio! 1980

Nazi Paratrooper series at Sphere
Storm Belgium, 1983
Crete Must Fall! 1983
Cassino Corpse Factory, 1983

Will Berthold at Sphere
Lebensborn, 1978
Death’s Head Brigade, 1980
Eagles of the Reich, 1980
Prinz Albrecht Strasse, 1981
Inferno 1 Blitzkreig! 1984
Inferno 2 Bloody Turning Point, 1986
Golden Eagles, 1985
Brotherhood of Blood
Siegfried’s Sword, 1986

Shark by Bruno Krauss (Ken Bulmer)
Steel Shark
Shark North 78
Shark Pack
Shark Hunt
Shark Africa 1981
Shark Wolf
Shark Raid
Shark America 82
Shark Trap 82

Edwyn Gray
The U-Boat series at Futura
No Survivors 1974
Action Atlantic 1975
Tokyo Torpedo 1976
Last Command 1977

Kark Horst at Corgi
Sink the Ark Royal, 1978
Caribbean Pirate, 1980
Arctic Mutiny, 1981

Heinz Konsalik
Doctor of Stalingrad
They Fell From the Sky 77
Highway to Hell 77
Staf Battalion 999 77
The Last Carpathian Wolf 78
The Skies over Kazakhstan 78
Heart of the 6th Army 78
Front Line Theatre 78

The Wolf Kruger series by Shaun Hutson at Star.
Blood and Honour 83
Sledgehammer 83
Kessler’s Raid 84
Convoy of Steel 84
Slaughterhouse 84
Men of Blood 85
Forged in Fire
No Survivors
Taken by Force

Wehrmacht by Horst Weitzer at NEL
Panzergrenadier, 1981
Genocide at St Honor, 1981
Sonderkommando, 1982

Kurt Eckhardt at Moat House
Heroes at Stalingrad, 1980
Heroes without Honour, 1980
Heroes at Cassino, 1980
Auchting Normandy! 1980

[dem bones]

doubt i'll be able to contribute to this section as my very limited knowledge of the genre amounts to what i've learned from Justin's 'Legion of the Damned' feature run over issues 4 and 5 of Paperback Fanatic and sampling a few of the more wild card WWII offerings.

Russell Braddon's The Inseparables is told from the German point of view as four ghosts of Dachau appear to an angry young medical student on an acid trip. The inseparable friends - ex-Hitler Youth and S.S. - all died horribly and their stories play such havoc with the student's idealism that he goes crazy. From the cover i was expecting a novel i'd not be able to read, but it's brilliant, written with the power and economy of the best pulp but with perhaps more depth than we're used to from, say, a Squelch or The Beast of Bubastis.

Leslie McManus's Jackboot Girls, on the other hand, is exactly what you'd expect - sadistic lesbian SS girls go wild in Berlin! According to Justin, Moffat knocked this one out over a weekend - between extended sessions with a bottle of Seagrams 100 Pipers by the looks of it. This one is so ugly in just about every department as to be almost lovable and, unlike Dracula And The Virgins Of The Undead, i doubt it will send you to sleep before the first page is done.

here's a sick little something i landed last weekend;

John Slater - Gestapo (Script Pty Ltd., 1964, 1967)

Blurb:

NICOLE HAD HEARD THE STORIES OF SAVAGE BRUTALITIES AND INDIGNITIES SUFFERED BY PRISONERS OF THE GESTAPO, AND OF DEATHS DUE TO PROLONGED TORTURE IN THE NAZIS' QUEST FOR INFORMATION.

FRENCHMEN HAD BEEN SHOT DEAD IN THE PUBLIC SQUARES FOR REFUSING TO BETRAY FELLOW COUNTRYMEN.

EVEN THOSE ARRESTED ON MINOR CHARGES AND RELEASED LATER, EMERGED AS PHYSICAL WRECKS AFTER BEATINGS AND SLEEPLESSNESS.

WOMEN HAD SUFFERED ALSO, AND AT LEAST ONE GIRL HAD EMERGED INSANE FROM THREE WEEKS OF INTERROGATION AND UNSPEAKABLE INDIGNITIES FROM THE GESTAPO.

From those lovely folk who brought us Ken Macaulay's unforgettable The Nuclear Nazis. i must admit i'm not sure i even want to start this which probably means i will. From the early 'sixties, 'Slater' churned out scores of these Nazisploitation offerings with titles like Prisoner of Dachau, Beast Woman of Buchenwald, Hitler's Experiment, Women of Auschwitz, Butcher of Auschwitz, The Nazi Fiends, Victim of the SS, etc., which suggests a considerable market for such dubious material.

[severance]

I see Justin forgot to mention Klaus Netzen a.k.a. Laurence James - 7 books in The Killers series:



* 1 : To Win and To Lose (1974)
* 2 : Winston Churchill Murder, the (1974)
* 3 : Night and Fog (1974)
* 4 : Fatal Friends, the (1975)
* 5 : Pearl of Blood (1975)
* 6 : Death Village (1976)
* 7 : Silent Enemy, the (1976)

All had wonderful Richard Clifton-Dey cover art which Steve posted a sample of at the old place, copied below.



Also missed was Jon Barton a.k.a. John Harvey - 3 books in the Deathshop series.



* 1 : Kill Hitler! (1976)
* 2 : Forest of Death (1977)
* 3 : Lightning Strikes (1977)

And lastly, there were only 8 books in the Sea Wolf series, not 9 as listed above - there was no Shark Wolf!!

[hugegadjit]

Damn, Shaun Hutson wrote war books?? Currently reading this, I'd swear it's Leo Kessler under a false name...

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[Dr Terror]

Mar 22, 2011 20:29:22 GMT hugegadjit said:

Damn, Shaun Hutson wrote war books?? Currently reading this, I'd swear it's Leo Kessler under a false name...

It is.

On the subject of war fiction, anyone read any Karl von Vereiter? Is any even available in English?

[hugegadjit]

Thought as much - the general poor quality and references to testicles as 'eggs' were a giveaway!

[hugegadjit]

Couldn't even get more than 3 chapters into this one... great cover art though!

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