Operation Vampyr

RUSSIA, 1941. THE mighty German army is smashing its way through the crippled Russian defences. Idealistic young German soldier Hans Vollmer joins the front on the eve of the invasion of Russia, unaware that darker things than the enemy stalk the battlefields. When he is saved from a Russian attack by a Rumanian platoon, led by the mysterious Lord Constanta, his relief is short-lived. Why do they never see the Rumanians during the day? Why do the Russian dead wear expressions of complete terror? Why are their bodies drained of blood? What unholy bargains has the Fuhrer made in order to win this war? First of a bloody trilogy, Fiends of the Eastern Front: Operation Vampyr features historical battles and all-out bloodsucking action! Also available in this series: The Blood Red Army, Twilight of the Dead. Fiends of the Eastern Front follows in the grand tradition of other alternative history fiction, taking a moment from the past and twisting it to create a new reality. To be honest, I don't know who invented this kind of story. Maybe Len Deighton, whose 1978 novel SS-GB told the tale of a detective solving a murder in 1941 Britain after Hitler had won the war for Europe