Since it is the World Book Day today I thought it was time to officially break the news about the book project I`ve been working on for the last year. After I met the people behind the soldier recovery team Legenda, and attended some of their expeditions I just had to make this project. With good help from some of the diggers I have collected many photos from expeditions, digs and exhumations, and also several articles and reports written by diggers. The book is meant to show you a little bit of the diggers world, their passion, love for old rust and the noble cause of finding the ones who was lost in the war, and what happens after they are found.

So, it being  World Book Day and I just happened to notice that the Ebook Version of the book was ready, I decided to make it available. And now, short after the Printed Version is also available!!
The book has 240 pages and 351 photos. 

After World War Two Europe and Russia laid in ruins and people struggled to return to their normal lifes. Often they had seen family members go off to the war, and now many of them did not return. Millions of soldiers were listed as Missing in Action, or was buried in unmarked graves or in cemeteries which was destroyed and disappeared in the fighting. Many families never had an answer to what happened to their loved ones. Some are still waiting today. Still wondering. This book is about one of the few licensed recovery groups which operates in Latvia, a part of the former Eastern front. Legenda, which is the groups name, have found and recovered thousands of fallen soldiers, hundreds each year. In close cooperation with Latvian, Russian and German War Grave Committees, military archives and local authorities they try to identify soldiers and notify family or relatives. They see too it that each soldier is reburied at official War Cemeteries. It is estimated that it can be as many as 8 million soldiers still missing in the areas which was once called the Eastern Front. Here is a unique glimpse into the diggers life as they search through vast forests, muddy fields, deep bunkers and tons of rust and debris from the battles trying to find the missing soldiers.

Since it is the World Book Day today I thought it was time to officially break the news about the book project I`ve been working on for the last year. After I met the people behind the soldier recovery team Legenda, and attended some of their expeditions I just had to make this project. With good help from some of the diggers I have collected many photos from expeditions, digs and exhumations, and also several articles and reports written by diggers. The book is meant to show you a little bit of the diggers world, their passion, love for old rust and the noble cause of finding the ones who was lost in the war, and what happens after they are found.

So, it being  World Book Day and I just happened to notice that the Ebook Version of the book was ready, I decided to make it available. And now, short after the Printed Version is also available!!

I would like to reccommend this book to all you history geeks. Fire and Ice deals with a forgotten chapter of World War Two, the burning and evacuation of Finmark in Northern Norway 1944. The author, Vince Hunt have done his research, and also travelled around Finmark interviewing eyewitnesses to the scorched earth operation. Well worth the read!!