A new book, HEROES IN GOOD COMPANY: L Company, 86^th Regiment, 10^th Mountain Division 1943-1945, released on April 11, 2022 is now available on amazon and in select bookstores.

L Company of the 86th Mountain Infantry Regiment went into action with 185 men, and sustained 156 casualties in just two months of fierce combat with German forces. Heroes in Good Company turns interviews, letters, memoirs, archived documents and more into a seamless narrative of the wartime experience of one company of mountain troops. Veteran accounts challenge the mythology that has built up around the 10th Mountain Division, replacing it with a gritty reality even more incredible. Previously unstudied battles are reconstructed for the first time. The character and camaraderie of individual soldiers shine through the horror of war. With unvarnished honesty, the human experience of World War Two is brought to life in intense and gripping detail, revealing as nothing before what it was like to be a US ski trooper fighting Hitler’s forces on the Italian Front.

The foreword was generously provided by Sgt. H. Robert Krear, Ph.D. before his passing in 2017. Krear was a veteran of L Company’s 3^rd Platoon, and was among many veterans who provided first-hand accounts. Heroes in Good Company is the product of twelve years of research, correspondence and personal interviews; the same body of research that produced much of the content on the Rucksack.