Do you enjoy reading Sven Hel's books?

What is perhaps most refreshing and impressive about Hel's books is the fact that he utilizes a group of Wehrmacht soldiers not as the fulcrum for yet another tired exposition of the evils of Nazism, but for an anlysis of the far greater and vaster evil of war itself - all war, at all times, in all places. To be sure, these men aren't heroes, nor even antiheroes in the sense we've come to recognize. They kill, spare and joke with equal ease, make life hellish even for one another and are always on the lookout for the least bit of gain. Much of their behavior, of course, is excusable in its context, but not all of it. As a result, we are left to contemplate the full complexity of war, and by extension the full complexity of man, as our ostensible protagonists alternately touch, amuse and repel us. This is a powerful experience, and if it doesn't always make for great literature it certainly never sinks to the level of potboilers.