PublishedHachette, September 2012 |
ISBN9780733627941 |
FormatSoftcover, 384 pages |
Dimensions23.4cm × 15.4cm × 2.9cm |
The previously untold story of a small band of Australians who volunteered to work defusing the mines dropped in and around Britain during World War II. Combining incredible bravery with the precision of surgeons, these men defused the lethal devices – often buried in residential areas, submerged in mud, or deep underwater – at huge risk to their own lives.
The mines were often booby-trapped by the Nazis, and these men came to recognise the products of the twisted minds and methods of the individual German mine makers.