Beneath Flanders fields : the tunnellers' war 1914-1918 / Peter Barton, Peter Doyle and Johan Vandewalle
2004, 1st edition. Staplehurst, UK : Spellmount. Fine paperback copy. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright and clean. Item #474221
Physical description: 304 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 29 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-299) and index.
English. Contents: 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. silent war -- VII. Enemies below -- VIII. 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. Subjects: Corps of Royal Engineers. World War, 1914-1918 Tunnel warfare Belgium Flanders. World War One, Western Front, 1914-1918, WW1, WWI, First World War, Great War.
Price: €18.00