
Beneath Flanders Fields
The Tunnellers' War 1914-18
McGill-Queen's University Press
Published on 13. January 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-7735-4301-0 (ISBN)
Description
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mine warfare in World War I through the words of the tunnellers themselves as well as plans, drawings, and previously unpublished archive photographs, many in colour.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.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 270 mm
Width: 214 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
1424 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7735-4301-0 (9780773543010)
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Persons
Peter Barton is a filmmaker, writer, and co-secretary to the All Parliamentary War Graves and Battlefields Heritage Group. Peter Doyle is a geologist and archaeologist who has studied the battlefields of the Western Front, Gallipoli, and Salonika. He is