Bullet Boys in pictures

'The standing stone was called Long Meg. All the standing stones up here had names'
Photograph: Alamy

'Alex knew that these ponies were intelligent. Maybe they could sense a way out of the fire' Photograph: Alamy

'I'm lying prone under the belly of a cracked old tree that gives me much-needed shade. I'm sucking a stone like a leper' Photograph: Alamy

'Alex never killed hares. He'd despatched hundreds of rabbits, dozens of foxes, a couple of injured deer, one blind ewe and a nest of bloody-minded wasps' Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

'out here, with strange lights flickering over the moors and the wind playing a tune...anything seemed possible' Photograph: Don McPhee/Guardian

'Alex couldn't bring himself to shoot a Lepus because his mother had said it was unlucky' Photograph: Alamy

'A long roll of moorland lies ahead. There is no cover. If the soldier chooses to come up here, I won't be able to move'
Photograph: Barry Lewis/Corbis

'Think of war zones: bombed houses, ruins, sniper fire. This is the place where they practise doing it. Strangeways had changed so much' Photograph: Alamy

'He was carrying an SA80 assault rifle and several rounds of ammunition. He looked savage and frightening' Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

'Alex bounced over the hot yellow grass, scattering sheep and bumping over grooves and hollows in the ground. He passed the stone fields, the marshes, the stone row. A stone cairn sat at the top of Cosdon Hill' Photograph: Lee Pengelly / Alamy/Alamy