Footsloggers: an infantry battalion at war 1939-45

REVIEW BY ANDREW MULHOLLAND Britain’s ‘poor bloody infantry’ did most of her fighting and dying during World War II. For all the glamour of the SAS or the prestige of the Grenadier Guards, it was the humble county regiments who bore the brunt and held the line. My grandfather and maybe yours. How they did that, beyond the sweep of strategy and generalship, is the subject of this book. Through the personal recollections of those who fought, recorded on tape by Peter Hart and his colleagues at the Imperial War Museum, it assembles a portrait of one of these units: the 16th Durham Light Infantry (DLI). The DLI story – the boredom, horror, humour, and everything else that went with li