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Prose: non-fiction, History
The Blitz Bomb Disposal Unit - this is the extraordinary tale of men whose job required daily acts of incredible heroism - it's a tale of ingenuity and technical achievement in seriously adverse circumstances.
Autumn 1940: the Front Line is now Britain itself. Cities are blitzed night after night and even after the bombers have turned for home, a deadly menace remains: thousands upon thousands of UXBs. Buried underground, their clocks ticking remorselessly, unexploded bombs blocked supply routes, emptied hospitals and left families refugees. Dealing with this threat soon became Churchill's priority.This desperate struggle became a battle of wits that pitted German ingenuity against British resourcefulness, including such extradinary figures as Robert Davies GC, who saved St Paul's Cathedral, and John Hudson, the modest horticulturalist who mastered the V1.
James Owen
James Owen was born in London in 1969. He studied Modern History at Oxford University. His previous books are A Serpent in Eden (Little, Brown, 2005) - shortlisted for the 2005 CWA Golden Dagger (non-fiction), and The Voice of War: The Second World War Told By Those Who Fought It, with Guy Walters (Viking, 2004). He writes regularly for The Times, the Telegraph and the Financial Times. He lives in Rome with his sculptor wife.
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