Beneath Flanders Fields ：The Tunnellers' War 1914-18

Publication subTitle ：The Tunnellers' War 1914-18

Author： Barton   Peter  

Publisher： McGill-Queen's University Press‎

Publication year： 2005

E-ISBN: 9780773573116

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780773529496

Subject： K143 World War I (1914 ~ 1918)

Keyword： 世界军事

Language： ENG

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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 claustrophobic work of the tunnellers, who not only suffered from mine explosions but regularly encountered hazardous gas and waterlogged ground.

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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

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