| Beneath Flanders Fields: The Tunnellers' War 1914-18 Contributor(s): Barton, Peter (Author), Doyle, Peter (Author), Vandewalle, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0773529497 ISBN-13: 9780773529496 Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press OUR PRICE: $54.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2005 Annotation: Below the battlefields of the Western Front, fifty thousand tunnellers, sewer workers, and miners were engaged in mine warfare in the Ypres Salient--a secret struggle beneath No Man's Land that combined daring engineering, technology, and science with calculated assassination. Few on the surface knew of the barbaric and claustraphobic work of the tunnellers, who not only suffered from mine explosions but regularly encountered hazardous gas and waterlogged ground. 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mine warfare in World War I through the words of the tunnellers themselves as well as plans, drawings, and previously unpublished archive photographs, many in colour.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 seen for the first time in photographs in "Beneath Flanders Fields." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - World War I |
| Dewey: 940.414 |
| LCCN: 2005412027 |
| Physical Information: 0.97" H x 8.92" W x 11.26" (3.28 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Cultural Region - Benelux |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Below the battlefields of the Western Front, fifty thousand tunnellers, sewer workers, and miners were engaged in mine warfare in the Ypres Salient--a secret struggle beneath No Man's Land that combined daring engineering, technology, and science with calculated assassination. Few on the surface knew of the barbaric and claustraphobic work of the tunnellers, who not only suffered from mine explosions but regularly encountered hazardous gas and waterlogged ground. 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 seen for the first time in photographs in Beneath Flanders Fields. |
Contributor Bio(s): Barton, Peter: - 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 |