I suppose The Story of the 79th Armoured Division (privately printed c 1945) would qualify. There's also ARE - 1st Assault Brigade but would need to check the exact title.
I cannot recommend this memoir highly enough. Bill Deakins "THE LAME ONE "Sod this for a game of soldiers"". The diary/log book type of writing may not be to everyone's preference but for me there is no finer account of a Royal Engineer's journey through the war, the world, and the ranks. And why "The Lame One"? Read "The Happening" paragraph. A chap who could survive that would likely survive anything (bar the march of time). Always remember, never forget, Jim.
Thanks for all the feedback chaps, I shall update the list when I've finished collating info from the IWM site. The IWM data set is not as bad as it first seemed, there's a lot of nonrelevant entries in that subset so fairly easy to get through.
Just reading these titles straight of my bookshelf, so apologies if one or two are already on the list. All contain RE bomb disposal content. Danger UXB by James Owen The Dangers of UXBs by Lt Col Eric Wakeling The Lonely War by Lt Col Eric Wakeling A Photographic Story of Wartime Bomb Disposal by Lt Col Eric Wakeling Don't Annoy the Enemy by Eric N. Walker Living with Danger by Captain H.W. Beckingham Achtung Minen! Guernsey by Captain H.W. Beckingham Bombs and Boobytraps by Captain H.J. Hunt Danger UXB by M.J. Jappy UXB Malta by S.A.M. Hudson Unexploded Bomb by Maj A.B. Hartley Highly Explosive by John Frayn Turner The Blinding Flash by John Frayn Turner Time Stood Still in a Muddy Hole by Pat Strickson Our Colonels are Methodist by Lt Col F.R. Oliver Bomb Disposal and Other Wartime Anecdotes by Alan Williman Designed to Kill by Maj Arthur Hogben A Soldier in Bedfordshire 1941-42 by Private Denis Argent The Army and I by Robert B.Carter (NCC, but attached to RE BD) We will not go to war by Felicity Goodall A question of Conscience by Felicity Goodall The Unfinished Man by James Byrom Conchie by Ernest Spring Last, but hopefully not least, my own books Bomb Disposal and the British Casualties of WW2 by Chris Ransted Disarming Hitler's V-Weapons by Chris Ransted Bomb Disposal in World War Two by Chris Ransted
Thanks for compiling this Chris, I shall add it to my master list, but please do bear with me. I've been suffering from an unyielding, Trotsky-level Sinus infection for the last week or so!
A couple more to add, first but slightly out of timescale. "Middle East Movers" Hugh Mackintosh. RE Transportation in the Canal Zone 1947 - 1956 The Mulberry Harbour project in Wigtownshire 1942 - 1944. A.T. Murchie. The Melbourne Military Railway. A History of the RTC t Melbourne and Kings Newton 1939 - 1945 Alan Cooper, Peter Leggott and Cyril Sprenger.
A new (and excellent) one for the list:- Mines, Bombs, Bullets and Bridges: A Sapper's Second World War Diary - Brian Moss (2023 - Pen & Sword)
Hi Chris, Have you publication date and publisher details for these two books? Williman, Alan (xxxx) 'Bomb Disposal and Other Wartime Anecdotes' Ransted, Chris, (xxx) 'Bomb Disposal and the British Casualties of WW2', Privately published?
I was going to mention that book, but you have done it. A excellent book that comes in a three quarter cardboard box that protects it. Its going for a silly amount of money at the moment. Edit: without the original cardboard box. Regards, Stu.
