Title: Beneath Flanders fields
Subtitle: the tunnellers' war, 1914-1918
Description: "The product of over twenty-five years of research, Beneath Flanders Fields illustrates the evolution of military mining, leading to its deployment in the greatest siege in military history - in the trenches of the Western Front." "In the words of the tunnellers themselves, and through previously unpublished photographs - many in colour - as well as contemporary plans and drawings, this book reveals how this most intense of battles was fought - and won. Few on the surface knew the horrific details of the tunnellers' work, yet this silent, claustrophobic conflict was a barbaric struggle that raged day and night for almost two and a half years, and one which generated mental and physical stresses often far beyond those suffered by the infantry in the trenches. On 7 June 1917 at Messines Ridge, the tension was broken with the opening of the most dramatic mine offensive in history."--Jacket.
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918, Campaigns, Tunnel warfare, Tunneling, Engineering and construction, History, Battles & campaigns, European history: First World War, First World War, 1914-1918, History: World, World war, 1914-1918, belgium, World war, 1914-1918, campaigns, Literary collections
Places: Belgium, Flanders
Time periods: 20th century