Description
Product ID: | 9781800810709 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Footsloggers |
Subtitle: | An Infantry Battalion at War, 1939-45 |
Authors: | Author: Peter Hart |
Page Count: | 432 |
Subjects: | History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Second World War, Land forces and warfare, Second World War, Land forces & warfare, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating The latest volume in Peter Hart's 'British Band of Brothers' series, combining gripping history with vivid eyewitness testimony The 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. |
Imprint Name: | Profile Books Ltd |
Publisher Name: | Profile Books Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2023-06-01 |