Bugging Out

Bugging Out, and its companion volume Bugging In, together cover options for the scope of incidents from short-term power cuts and industrial action, through flooding and fire, to pandemic and war. The information is applicable worldwide but these books are different from most because they are written with people in the UK and Europe very much in mind. Think it can't happen to you? Think again! Tens of thousands of people every year would benefit from having read this book.

Son of a Scottish mother and Yorkshire father, David Eric Crossley was raised in Yorkshire. After a number of unsatisfying jobs, he joined the forces in 1970 and was a soldier for over 20 years. Qualified as an instructor in Nuclear Biological and Chemical Warfare, Combat Survival, Urban and Counter-revolutionary Warfare, Signals, Advanced First Aid, Light Rescue and Fire fighting, among other things, he served in Africa, Asia, the Gulf, Central and South America and Europe. He has lived through the reality and aftermath of wars and counter-terrorist operations, and as an advisor and rescuer during Aid to the Civil Powers missions after major disasters overseas. After leaving the forces, David settled in Scotland. He worked as Training Manager Scotland for the British Red Cross for 4 years including training overseas service and emergency response volunteers, and now works as an independent survival consultant and writer. David has been writing professionally since the 1980s and has had over 100 magazine articles and short stories published in outdoors, survival, military, business and general interest magazines. He has also published Bugging In – a guide to survival-in-place; Bugging In and Bugging Out - in a single volume; compiled, edited and wrote much of an urban survival reference, published as Streetcraft, for Ludlow Survivors Group; plus There Falls No Shadow - the first novel of a post-apocalyptic series; and is working on the second in the series, Slow the Shadow Creeps.