Footsloggers

An Infantry Battalion at War, 1939-45

Peter Hart

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English

Profile
15 August 2023

History; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Second World War; Land forces & warfare

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.

By: Peter Hart
Imprint: Profile
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Main
Dimensions: Height: 238mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 40mm
Weight: 670g
ISBN: 9781800810709
ISBN 10: 1800810709
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 15 August 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Peter Hart was the oral historian at the Imperial War Museum for nearly 40 years. A prolific military history author, he has acted as an army guide, runs his own battlefield tour company and has a successful weekly podcast series, Pete & Gary's Military History. His previous books for Profile include At Close Range and The Last Battle.

Reviews for Footsloggers: An Infantry Battalion at War, 1939-45

'Another powerful entry in Hart's 'British Band of Brothers' series' - Major Gordon Corrigan 'Praise for Peter Hart: 'Thought provoking, erudite, yet eminently readable and entertaining ... A historian and author at the peak of his powers' - Richard van Emden 'Exquisite ... Hart lets these [men] speak' - Gerard de Groot