At Close Range: Life and Death in an Artillery Regiment, 1939-45

WINNER OF THE MILITARY HISTORY MATTERS AWARD

'Hart is a historian and author at the peak of his powers' Richard van Emden

The best way to understand what it was like to fight in the Second World War is to see it through the eyes of the soldiers who fought it. The South Notts Hussars fought at almost every major battle of the Second World War, from the Siege of Tobruk to the Battle of El Alamein and the D-Day Landings.

Here, Peter Hart draws on detailed interviews conducted with members of th...