The result of over twenty-five years of research, Beneath Flanders Fields reveals how this intense underground battle was fought and won. The authors give the first full account of mine warfare in World War I through the words of the tunnellers themselves as well as plans, drawings, and previously unpublished archive photographs, many in colour. Beneath Flanders Fields also shows how military mining evolved. The tunnellers constructed hundreds of deep dugouts that housed tens of thousands of troops. Often electrically lit and ventilated, these tunnels incorporated headquarters, cookhouses, soup kitchens, hospitals, drying rooms, and workshops. A few dugouts survive today, a final physical legacy of the Great War, and are presented for the first time in photographs in Beneath Flanders Fields.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Mcgill-Queen's University Press
ISBN-13
9780773529496
eBay Product ID (ePID)
183686919
Product Key Features
Author
Peter Doyle, John Vandewalle, Peter Barton
Publication Name
Beneath Flanders Fields: the Tunnellers' War 1914-18
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2005
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
279mm
Item Width
216mm
Item Weight
1470g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Peter Barton, Peter Doyle, John Vandewalle
Country/Region of Manufacture
Canada
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