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Beneath Flanders fields : the tunnellers' war, 1914-1918 /

"The product of over twenty-five years of research, Beneath Flanders Fields illustrates the evolution of military mining, leading to its deployment in the greatest siege in military history - in the trenches of the Western Front." "In the words of the tunnellers themselves, and throug...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Barton, Peter, 1955-
Otros Autores: Doyle, Peter, Vandewalle, Johan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2005], ©2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 legacyepilogue
  • sources
  • bibliography
  • picture and illustration references
  • index
  • a
  • b
  • c
  • d
  • e
  • f
  • g
  • h
  • i
  • j
  • k
  • l
  • m
  • n
  • o
  • p
  • r
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  • t
  • u
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