Front Pigs. This is what the experienced soldiers were called who had proven their courage on the battlefields of the Eastern Front. Young soldiers who had shown their worth in infernal tank battles and bloody hand-to-hand combat. They had carved a path as an invincible army force all the way to the gates of Moscow. The crew members of the German Panzer III tank with turret number 242 and the soldiers of the motorcycle unit of the Waffen-SS under the command of Lieutenant Michael von Losswitz were such soldiers. Their paths regularly crossed in the endless, bloody Russian steppes. They fought for their lives against the Red Army and partisan groups, showing no mercy and using any means necessary to survive. The horrors of artillery bombardments, snipers, the endless slaughter, and the deaths of countless comrades hardened the young soldiers and made them emotionless. Each day could be their last; death marched alongside them. The rape and murder of his girlfriend by a partisan group transforms the young soldier Kurt Hausser into a cold-hearted hunter of men. Brotherhood, humor, and love are essential for the young soldiers to endure their long journey, which was strewn with inhuman suffering and countless deaths. As winter descends, the exhausted and bloodied German army lies freezing in the open field before the gates of Moscow. Only then do the Russian counterattacks begin. Icy cold, hunger, and ruthless assaults accompany the abandoned German soldiers on their disgraceful retreat through the hell of Russia. Front Pigs allows the reader to experience World War II on the Eastern Front as it truly was.