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Book SynopsisShortlisted for the 2023 Military History Matters Book of the Year Award 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.
Trade ReviewAnother powerful entry in Hart's 'British Band of Brothers' series -- Major Gordon Corrigan
Powerful, vivid and haunting ... the boredom, horror, humour, and everything else that went with life at the front [makes this] an emotional ride -- Andrew Mulholland * The Past *
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 * The Times *
