Beneath Flanders Fields: The Tunnellers' War 1914-18 9780773573116
The story of Britain and Germany's cat-and-mouse mine warfare - one of the most misunderstood, misrepresented, and
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Table of contents :
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
PREFACE
AUTHORS' NOTE
ABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION
I: FLANDERS FIELDS: THE YPRES SALIENT
II: FROM SIEGE WAR TO WORLD WAR
III: SAPPERS AND MINERS
IV: MINE WARFARE, TUNNELLERS AND PIONIERE, 1915
V: KRIEGSGEOLOGIE: GOING UNDERGROUND
VI: THE SILENT WAR
VII: ENEMIES BELOW
VIII: THE MINE WAR DEEPENS, 1915-1917
IX: 'EARTHQUAKING' THE RIDGE: MESSINES, JUNE 1917
X: MOUNTAINS IN THE SKY: MESSINES AND AFTER
XI: 'A HOLE IN THE GROUND WITH A LID ON'
XII: DEGREES OF PROTECTION, 1917-1918
XIII: BACK TO THE FRONT: THE LEGACY
EPILOGUE
SOURCES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PICTURE AND ILLUSTRATION REFERENCES
INDEX
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