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About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Close Encounters
- 2. Learning their Trade
- 3. The Great Adventure
- 4. Battle of Sedjenane
- 5. Advance to Tunis
- 6. Landing at Salerno
- 7. Naples and River Crossings
- 8. Monte Camino
- 9. Across the Garigliano
- 10. A Middle East Sojourn
- 11. Gothic Line Horrors
- 12. The Battle of Gemmano Ridge
- 13. More Bloody Ridges
- 14. Could You Have Coped?
- 15. Last Rites at Cosina
- 16. Grecian Odyssey
- 17. What a Relief, 8 May 1945
- 18. End of Days
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Index