http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hassel/ Sven Hassel Mailing List - for discussion of all topics relating to the great Danish war book writer. Tue, 19 May 2009 18:33:37 GMT Pablo P http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hassel/message/5996 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hassel/message/5996 Hello,     in my experience, the books in Spanish also use "harder" language than those in English but they're excellent books nonetheless. Tue, 19 May 2009 18:25:14 GMT Pablo P http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hassel/message/5995 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hassel/message/5995 Hello,     I've read all books in Spanish and as many in English as I 've been able to find and they're close in meaning and effect.  Sadly, I can't read Mon, 18 May 2009 12:27:16 GMT Pontus Fogelberg http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hassel/message/5994 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hassel/message/5994 It certainly wasn't my intention to start a truth vs. fiction debate. When I put the word "authenticity" in the subject field I was merely referring to how Fri, 15 May 2009 03:28:11 GMT Gencia D. Adrian http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hassel/message/5993 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hassel/message/5993 Pontfogel, I personally appreciate you taking the time for the translation. It is rather interesting considering that it is real stuff. I do not want to start Thu, 14 May 2009 18:47:15 GMT pontfogel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hassel/message/5992 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hassel/message/5992 I recently read a swedish history magazine which had an article about the battle of Kursk. In the article they had included an excerpt from a diary written by Thu, 14 May 2009 18:28:04 GMT pontfogel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hassel/message/5991 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hassel/message/5991 Andrew: I'm not sure what you mean so I looked up the word pander and found two possible usages (using the word as a verb): 1. (intransitive) To offer illicit Thu, 14 May 2009 09:08:56 GMT Dan Smith http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hassel/message/5990 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hassel/message/5990 ... I think that in the spirit of academic research this would be totally acceptable. ;-) -Dan- Thu, 14 May 2009 07:40:51 GMT Andrew http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hassel/message/5989 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hassel/message/5989 Since you are from Scandinavia I think you shouldn't be pandering to the foolish censorship concerns of other countries!!! Be proud of your freedoms ... From: Thu, 14 May 2009 07:20:05 GMT pontfogel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hassel/message/5988 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hassel/message/5988 Hello group! I generally purchase Hassel's books translated into swedish, since that's my mother toungue. I have also read three of the books in danish (De Thu, 14 May 2009 03:48:00 GMT Gencia D. Adrian http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hassel/message/5987 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hassel/message/5987 I have read all of the novels in Romanian, and the few I could get my hands on in English. I must say that the difference between the two are not so big, Thu, 14 May 2009 02:52:48 GMT Stefan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hassel/message/5986 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hassel/message/5986 ... 'i ve never been able to read the original danish versions ' Do we have any Danish speakers here ? Would be interesting to hear how the different Thu, 14 May 2009 01:25:15 GMT david chong http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hassel/message/5985 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hassel/message/5985 hey its good to hear from you  all! i have read sven's books both in english and spanish and fro the most part id say the translations between  both Thu, 14 May 2009 00:22:36 GMT lupumauribus http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hassel/message/5984 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hassel/message/5984 Hi all, I'm a late convert to Sven Hassel. Couldn't care less about how true or autobiographical the books are - they work as fiction, which will do me. A word Mon, 06 Apr 2009 03:07:48 GMT Gencia D. Adrian http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hassel/message/5983 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hassel/message/5983 I believe in war comrades the legionnaire actually sings this as they are riding in the train hospital toward hamburg, as a soviet plane machine guns the red Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:16:39 GMT Stefan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hassel/message/5982 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hassel/message/5982 ... Nice find :)~ Servus Stefan