Softly Tread The Brave
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
A triumph over terror, daring, and death — Softly Tread the Brave is a gripping work of narrative non-fiction that chronicles the extraordinary courage of mine-disposal officers John Stuart Mould, G.C., G.M., and Hugh Randal Syme, G.C., G.M., and Bar, whose defiance of almost certain death during the Second World War stands as one of the most remarkable feats of bravery in modern military history. Ivan Southall reconstructs, with meticulous detail and breathtaking tension, the nerve-shredding work of these men as they dismantled some of the most lethal and ingeniously designed German mines ever deployed against Allied shipping and harbours. Southall, best known for his vivid and humanising approach to wartime biography, presents these officers not as remote heroes but as flesh-and-blood men operating at the absolute limits of human endurance, and his prose carries both the precision of a historian and the pulse of a thriller writer. The book stands as a powerful testament to the quiet, unsung heroism that shaped the outcome of the war — and leaves the reader asking what it truly means to look death in the face and step forward anyway.
Author: Ivan Southall
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
A triumph over terror, daring, and death — Softly Tread the Brave is a gripping work of narrative non-fiction that chronicles the extraordinary courage of mine-disposal officers John Stuart Mould, G.C., G.M., and Hugh Randal Syme, G.C., G.M., and Bar, whose defiance of almost certain death during the Second World War stands as one of the most remarkable feats of bravery in modern military history. Ivan Southall reconstructs, with meticulous detail and breathtaking tension, the nerve-shredding work of these men as they dismantled some of the most lethal and ingeniously designed German mines ever deployed against Allied shipping and harbours. Southall, best known for his vivid and humanising approach to wartime biography, presents these officers not as remote heroes but as flesh-and-blood men operating at the absolute limits of human endurance, and his prose carries both the precision of a historian and the pulse of a thriller writer. The book stands as a powerful testament to the quiet, unsung heroism that shaped the outcome of the war — and leaves the reader asking what it truly means to look death in the face and step forward anyway.