Product Description

Most books about the Second World War outline various strategic situations and then go on to describe the tactics employed by both sides and the resulting battles. The picture is usually viewed from the top down and one is rarely able to appreciate what it was really like for the individual soldier involved in such conflict. This book is quite different. It shows the reader the raw material from which history is made and describes, often in brutal form, the tedium and misery of sitting in a foxhole in the freezing cold and the intense mixture of terror and elation of being involved in close combat. Few books have done this with such clarity. Forward by Major General Michael Reynolds, CB