TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barton,Peter
AU  - Doyle,Peter
AU  - Vandewalle,Johan
TI  - Beneath Flanders fields: the tunnellers' war, 1914-1918 
SN  - 9780773573116
AV  - D607 .B464 2005
PY  - 2005///., 2004
CY  - Montreal
PB  - McGill-Queen's University Press
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - Belgium
KW  - Engineering and construction
KW  - Tunnel warfare
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - Western Front
KW  - Tunneling
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Co-published by Spellmount Publishers; 2; 2; b
N2  - "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 "In the words of the tunnellers themselves, and through previously unpublished photographs - many in colour - as well as contemporary plans and drawings, this book reveals how this most intense of battles was fought - and won.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."--BOOK JACKET
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