Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

  • Sixty Days in Combat

  • An Infantryman's Memoir of World War II in Europe
  • By: Dean Joy
  • Narrated by: Don Hastings
  • Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
Offer ends May 1st, 2024 11:59PM GMT. Terms and conditions apply.
£7.99/month after 3 months. Renews automatically.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Sixty Days in Combat cover art

Sixty Days in Combat

By: Dean Joy
Narrated by: Don Hastings
Get this deal Try for £0.00

Pay £99p/month. After 3 months pay £7.99/month. Renews automatically. See terms for eligibility.

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £7.99

Buy Now for £7.99

Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Listeners also enjoyed...

The Longest Winter cover art
Invasion Diary cover art
Honor Before Glory cover art
War, Wine, and Valour cover art
Chasing Understanding in the Jungles of Vietnam cover art
When I Turned Nineteen cover art
The Last Jump cover art
Dog Company cover art
Jump Commander cover art
Band of Strangers cover art
Rescue at Los Baños cover art
A Foot Soldier for Patton cover art
What Now, Lieutenant? cover art
The Ground You Stand Upon: Life of a Skytrooper in Vietnam cover art
The Final Flag cover art
No Better Place to Die cover art

Summary

“The infantryman’s war is... without the slightest doubt the dirtiest, roughest job of them all.”

He went in as a military history buff, a virgin, and a teetotaler. He came out with a war bride, a taste for German beer, and intimate knowledge of one of the darkest parts of history. His name is Dean Joy, and this was his war.

For two months in 1945, Joy endured and survived the everyday deprivations and dangers of being a frontline infantryman. His amazingly detailed memoir, self-illustrated with numerous scenes Joy remembers from his time in Europe, brings back the sights, sounds, and smells of the experience as few books ever have. Here is the story of a young man who dreamed of flying fighter aircraft and instead was chosen to be cannon fodder in France and Germany... who witnessed the brutality of Nazis killing Allied medics by using the cross on their helmets as targets... and who narrowly escaped being wounded or killed in several “near miss” episodes, the last of which occurred on his last day of combat.

Sixty Days in Combat re-creates all the drama of the “dogface’s” fight, a time that changed one young man in a war that changed the world.

©2004 Dean Joy (P)2012 Random House Audio

What listeners say about Sixty Days in Combat

Average customer ratings

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.