| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Contents |
List of Plates; Abbreviations; Glossary; Preface; Chapter 1: Military Mining Before 1914; Chapter 2: Mining Operations 1914 -- early 1915; Chapter 3: French Mining Sectors: Carency, Oise, Les Eparges and Vauquois; Chapter 4: British Mining operations 1915 -- early 1916; Chapter 5: Hohenzollern and St Eloi 1916; Chapter 6: The Somme 1916; Chapter 7: Vimy, Arras and Messines 1917; Chapter 8: Miners and Technology; Chapter 9: Tunnels and the Infantry Attack; Chapter 10: Underground Accommodation and Communications; Chapter 11: Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Simon Joness graphic history of underground warfare during the Great War uses personal reminiscences to convey the danger and suspense of this unconventional form of conflict. He describes how the underground soldiers of the opposing armies engaged in a ruthless fight for supremacy, covers the tunneling methods they employed, and shows the increasingly lethal tactics they developed during the war in which military mining reached its apotheosis. He concentrates on the struggle for ascendancy by the British tunneling companies on the Western Front. But his wide-ranging study also tells the story of the little known but fascinating subterranean battles fought in the French sectors of the Western Front and between the Austrians and the Italians in the Alps which have never been described before in English. Vivid personal testimony is combined with a lucid account of the technical challenges and ever-present perils of tunneling in order to give an all-round insight into the extraordinary experience of this underground war |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
World War, 1914-1918 -- Tunnel warfare
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Engineering and construction
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Western Front.
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War I.
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Military campaigns
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Tunnel warfare
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Unterirdisches Bauwerk
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Weltkrieg 1914-1918
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Westfront
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Weltkrieg (1914-1918)
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Western Front (World War (1914-1918))
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| Genre/Form |
Personal narratives
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Personal narratives.
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Récits personnels.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781844684700 |
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1844684709 |
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9781783370641 |
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1783370645 |
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