Footsloggers
by Peter Hart
"An Infantry Battalion at War, 1939-45"
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Footsloggers Book Details
War:
World War II
Perspective:
Infantry
Military Unit:
British Army
True Story:
Yes
Biography:
No
Region:
Europe
Published Date:
2023
ISBN13:
9781800810709
Footsloggers Book Description
Shortlisted for the 2023 Military History Matters Book of the Year AwardThe only way to truly understand what it was like to fight in the Second World War is to listen to the experiences of those men who were there. And often, there was nowhere more dangerous than on the ground. In Footsloggers, Peter Hart reconstructs one infantry battalion's war in staggering detail. Based on his interviews with members of the 16th Durham Light Infantry, Hart bears witness not only to their comradeship, suffering, dreadful losses and individual tragedies, but also their courage and self-sacrifice as they fought their way across North Africa, Italy and Greece. This is a human look at the inhuman nature of war from the author of At Close Range and Burning Steel.