Beneath Flanders fields : the tunnellers' war, 1914-1918 / Peter Barton, Peter Doyle and Johan Vandewalle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barton, Peter.

Contributor:

Doyle, Peter, 1960-

Vandewalle, Johan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Engineering and construction.

World War, 1914-1918.

World War, 1914-1918--Tunnel warfare--Belgium.

World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Belgium.

Tunneling--Belgium--History--20th century.

Tunneling.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Place of Publication:

Staplehurst [England] : Spellmount, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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mine warfare in World War I through the words of the tunnellers themselves as well as plans, drawings, and previously unpublished archive photographs, many in colour.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.

Contents:

I: FLANDERS FIELDS: THE YPRES SALIENT

II: FROM SIEGE WAR TO WORLD WAR

SAPPERS AND MINERS

MINE WARFARE, TUNNELLERS AND PIONIERE, 1915

KRIEGSGEOLOGIE: GOING UNDERGROUND

THE SILENT WAR

ENEMIES BELOW

THE MINE WAR DEEPENS, 1915-1917

'EARTHQUAKING' THE RIDGE: MESSINES, JUNE 1917

MOUNTAINS IN THE SKY: MESSINES AND AFTER

'A HOLE IN THE GROUND WITH A LID ON

DEGREES OF PROTECTION, 1917-1918

BACK TO THE FRONT: THE LEGACY

Notes:

Co-published by Spellmount Publishers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7735-7311-9

OCLC:

1380729987