August 1939. James Carter, a young miner's son from Durham, answers the call to arms and joins the Durham Light Infantry. Deployed to France with the British Expeditionary Force, he faces the chaos of the German Blitzkrieg — and the retreat to Dunkirk that will shape him for the rest of the war.
The first of ten books following one man's war from a Durham street to the campaigns that end it.
“Grounded in the real history of the 6th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry — not just the battles, but the men who fought them.”
Torin Kincaid writes character-driven WWII fiction built on regimental history, real campaign detail, and the texture of ordinary lives interrupted by war. The Carter Series follows James Carter across the length of the Second World War, for readers who want the grit and comradeship of Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe novels carried into the mid-20th century.
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