Over here in the Netherlands you still hear, more than 60 years after the second world war, news about unexploded bombs being found while digging. When I was young (end of the eighties probably) I remember we had to stay at my grandmothers place during one weekend as a bomb was found quite near to our house and it needed to be defused. I can still remember seeing a drawing of the blast radius of that bomb and had it gone off it would have had a huge impact on the area. It is hard to imagine how many bombs were used during that war. The beaches in Denmark were carpeted with two million landmines, protecting the German army from an invasion from sea. After the war though these mines needed to be removed and what the Danish did, was use German soldiers to do so. Land of Mine tells the story of a group of young soldiers who are forced to do this extremely dangerous job. Continue reading →