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“They call it the long walk. It’s like I’m in a bubble. Like the world went away and it’s just me… focussed… concentrating. You get used to it – it becomes normal.”. Men and women who have worked in bomb disposal tell their stories, as they saw them, as they…
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This is a non-fiction anthology of stories from men and women who have worked in bomb disposal across the decades, published by Felix Fund, the UK Bomb Disposal Charity.
I must express an interest here, as it has been a charity that I’ve supported for many years.
I was completely rapt reading accounts of their work from Northern Ireland in the 1970s, the Falklands in the 1980s, to Iraq and Afghanistan in later years, and also working on devices found from both world wars.
Their deprecating humour, sometimes very dark, and their extraordinary daily heroism makes for…
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