Footsloggers - An Infantry Battalion at War, 1939-45

Informationen zum Autor Peter Hart is the oral historian at the Imperial War Museum and has written several titles on the First World War. His latest books for Profile are Gallipoli , The Great War and Voices from the Front . Klappentext The latest volume in Peter Hart's 'British Band of Brothers' series, combining gripping history with vivid eyewitness testimony Vorwort The latest volume in Peter Hart's 'British Band of Brothers' series, combining gripping history with vivid eyewitness testimony Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Hart, PETER HART
• Publisher: Profile Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781800810709
• ISBN: 978-1-80081-070-9
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 238 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Land forces & warfare, Land forces and warfare, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, HISTORY / Military / Land Forces