Beneath Flanders fields

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 "In the words of the tunnellers themselves, and through previously unpublished photographs - many in colour - as well as contemporary plans and drawings, this book reveals how this most intense of battles was fought - and won.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

Times: 20th century