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They take us off the hospital train at Lemberg goods station. We’re going to be patched up in Poland before they’ll allow us to be seen in Germany.
‘Where are you from?’ asks a tight-lipped hospital matron.
‘From Moscow,’ grins Porta, cheerfully. ‘We’ve been sent here as a reward for good service to see the world’s ugliest iodine and aspirin juggler!’
‘I shall report you for this!’ whines the dragon, insulted.
‘You can borrow me old John Thomas to write the report with, if you like, love,’ Porta laughs noisily, letting go a terrific fart, and with that pointing the final full-stop to our part in Hitler’s Moscow campaign.
1 As-tu etc. (French): Have you slipped off the pedals?
2 ‘Arse and Boots’: see Wheels of Terror.
3 Tu me fais chier (French): You make me shit (French Army slang for: You make me tired).
4 Matj (Russian): Mother.
5 Grosses Arschloch (German): Big arsehole.
6 Matjeri (Russian): Mothers.
7 Ein Flintenweib (German): Army slang for a partisan woman.
8 Saperlotte (French Army jargon): denotes pleased surprise.
9 Staross (Russian): Mayor.
10 C’est un bordel (French): It’s a brothel.
11 Pas d’objections (French): No nonsense.
12 Tovaritsch etc. (Russian…German): Comrade, comrade, don’t shoot.
13 Stoi kto! (Russian): Halt!
14 Piestre (Russian): Faster.
15 Schwarzer Heinrich (German): Slang for EK.I.
A WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON EBOOK
First published by in Great Britain in 1975 by Corgi
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Copyright © Sven Hassel 1973
Translation copyright © Transworld Publishers Ltd. 1975
Translated from the Danish by Tim Bowie
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