Beneath Flanders Fields: The Tunnellers' War 1914-18

by Johan Vandewalle, Peter Barton (I), Peter Doyle

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773529497
• ISBN13: 9780773529496
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.9" x 11.3"