History Literature / GerfautWar

{{Pulp|Magazine}} influences are noticeable, and ArtisticLicenseHistory and ArtisticLicenseMilitary range from believable to plain ludicrous in the same vein as the like of Creator/SvenHassel. There are about ''[[ArchivePanic six hundred books]]'' in total.

* WarIsHell: The collection's CentralTheme.

{{Pulp|Magazine}} influences are noticeable, and ArtisticLicenseHistory and ArtisticLicenseMilitary ranges from believable to plain ludicrous in the same vein as the like of Creator/SvenHassel. There are about ''[[ArchivePanic six hundred books]]'' in total.

{{Pulp|Magazine}} influences are noticeable, and ArtisticLicenseHistory ranges from perfectly believable to plain ludicrous. There are about ''[[ArchivePanic six hundred books]]'' in total.

* ThematicSeries: The novels are not part of a single common narrative arc, they only share the war setting and soldier tropes.

French publisher Gerfaut published a collection of [[MilitaryAndWarfareLiterature war novels]] from the 1960s to the 1980s. All of them were written by French and Spanish writers who used German-sounding [[PenName pseudonyms]]. Enrique Sánchez Pascual is one of them, using the alias "Karl von Vereiter", and he is also known for writing {{nazisploitation}} fiction.

* MsFanservice: Whenever there are female protagonists or at least women who play important parts in the novels, expect them to be featured on the cover this way. [[https://pmcdn.priceminister.com/photo/la-barriere-de-feu-de-anton-sedoff-1086468601_L.jpg Here's an example]].

* TankGoodness: The firepower and armor thickness of mid-to-late war German and Soviet tanks is often brought up.

* HopelessWar: The closer the novels get to 1945, the more hopeless the war is for German soldiers.

* ThematicSeries: The novels are not part of a single common narrative arc, they only share the war setting.

{{Pulp|Magazine}} influences are noticeable, and ArtisticLicenseHistory ranges from perfectly believable to plain ludicrous. There are about [[ArchivePanic six hundred]] books in total.

{{Pulp|Magazine}} influences are noticeable, and the ArtisticLicenseHistory ranges from perfectly believable to plain ludicrous. There are about [[ArchivePanic six hundred]] books in total.

{{Pulp|Magazine}} influences are noticeable, and the degree of ArtisticLicenseHistory ranges from perfectly believable to plain ludicrous. There are about [[ArchivePanic six hundred]] books in total.

* RapeAsDrama: A great many female protagonists (mostly German war auxiliaries, Eastern European civilians and secret agents of both sides) end up victims of rape. [[RapeAndRevenge And some take revenge]].

* ArmchairMilitary: German or Soviet soldiers alike often talk about their superiors sending them in some pointless offensives as CannonFodder.

* WarIsHell: The collection's central theme.

* RapeAsDrama: A great many female protagonists (mostly German war auxiliaries, Eastern European civilians and secret agents of both sides) end up victims of rape.

French publisher Gerfaut published a collection of [[MilitaryAndWarfareLiterature war novels]] from the 1960s to the 1980s. {{Pulp|Magazine}} influences are noticeable, and the degree of ArtisticLicenseHistory ranges from perfectly believable to plain ludicrous. All of them were written by French and Spanish writers who used German-sounding [[PenName pseudonyms]]. Enrique Sánchez Pascual is one of them, using the alias "Karl von Vereiter", and he is also known for writing {{nazisploitation}} fiction.


The largest number of these novels, by far, take place during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, on the [[WorldWarII/WarInEuropeAndAfrica Eastern Front]] more specifically, from Operation Barbarossa (the German invasion of USSR in June 1941) to the fall of Berlin in May 1945, although other settings of the war such as [[WorldWarII/WarInEuropeAndAfrica North Africa]] and [[WorldWarII/WarInAsiaAndThePacific Asia and the Pacific]] are also used, as well as the [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar 1950s Indochina War]]. UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust also shows up here and there.

There are about [[ArchivePanic three hundred]] books in total.

French publisher Gerfaut published a collection of [[MilitaryAndWarfareLiterature war novels]] from the 1960s to the 1980s. All of them were written by French and Spanish writers who used German-sounding [[PenName pseudonyms]]. {{Pulp|Magazine}} influences are noticeable, and the degree of ArtisticLicenseHistory ranges from perfectly believable to plain ludicrous.

* RapeAsDrama: A great many female protagonists (mostly German female auxiliaries, Eastern European civilians and secret agents of both sides) end up victims of rape.

* RapeAsDrama: A great many female protagonists end up victims of rape, mostly German female auxiliaries and Eastern European civilians.

* LaResistance: Some novels concern groups of partisans who resist against Germans (or fight each other) from central Europe to Belarus. They can be shown as heroic in some novels, and just little better than the worst Nazis in others.

French publisher Gerfaut published a collection of [[MilitaryAndWarfareLiterature war novels]] from the 1960s to the 1980s. All of them were written by French and Spanish writers who used German-sounding [[PenName pseudonyms]]. {{Pulp|Magazine}} influences are noticeable, and the degree of ArtisticLicenseHistory ranges from totally believable to plain ludicrous.

French publisher Gerfaut published a collection of [[MilitaryAndWarfareLiterature war novels]] from the 1960s to the 1980s. All of them were written by French and Spanish writers who used German-sounding [[PenName pseudonyms]]. {{Pulp|Magazine}} influences are noticeable, and the degree of ArtisticLicenseHistory ranges from believable to plain ludicrous.

There are about [[ArchivePanic three hundred]] of them.

* JoinTheArmyTheySaid: When new German recruits arrive on the front, they realize the difference between what propaganda told them and the grim reality.

* AnyoneCanDie: The stories often feature a squad of soldiers as protagonists. By the end, one or several of them will be dead.