One of the emergency battalions raised in the aftermath of Dunkirk, the 16th Durham Light Infantry fought in North Africa, Italy, the Middle East and Greece. Based on interviews with veterans conducted by the Imperial War Museum in the 1980s, this book offers a vivid first-hand narrative of the men’s training and deployment, brutal combat on the Gothic Line, the deaths of comrades, and the relief when it was over.
Shortlisted 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.
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