FREE BENEATH FLANDERS FIELDS: THE TUNNELLERS WAR, 1914-1918 PDF Peter Barton,Peter Doyle,Johan Vandewalle | 304 pages | 28 Sep 2007 | The History Press Ltd | 9781862273573 | English | Stroud, United Kingdom Fighting Under the Earth: The History of Tunneling in Warfare - Foreign Policy Research Institute Below the battlefields of the 1914-1918 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 claustraphobic work Beneath Flanders Fields: The Tunnellers War the tunnellers, who not only suffered from mine explosions but regularly encountered hazardous gas and waterlogged Beneath Flanders Fields: The Tunnellers War. The result of over twenty-five years of research, Beneath Flanders Fields reveals how this intense underground battle was fought and won. The authors give the first full account of mine warfare in World War I through 1914-1918 words of the tunnellers themselves as well as plans, drawings, and previously unpublished archive photographs, many in colour. Beneath Flanders Fields also shows how military mining evolved. The tunnellers constructed hundreds of deep dugouts that housed tens of thousands of troops. Often electrically lit and ventilated, these tunnels incorporated headquarters, cookhouses, soup kitchens, hospitals, drying rooms, and workshops. A few dugouts survive today, a 1914-1918 physical legacy of the Great War, and are seen for the first time in photographs in Beneath Flanders Fields. Peter Doyle is a geologist and archaeologist who has studied the battlefields of the Western Front, Gallipoli, and Salonika. Johan Vandewalle, a former civil engineer, is an expert on the tunnels and dugouts of Flanders. Beneath Flanders Fields: The Tunnellers' War by Peter Doyle Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to 1914-1918 saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Peter Barton. Johan Vandewalle. Below the battlefields of the Western Front, fifty thousand tunnellers, sewer workers, and miners were engaged in mine warfare in the Ypres Salient--a Beneath Flanders Fields: The Tunnellers War 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 claustraphobic work of the tunnellers, who not only s 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 claustraphobic work of the tunnellers, who not only suffered from mine explosions but regularly encountered hazardous gas and waterlogged ground. The result of over twenty-five years of research, Beneath Flanders Fields reveals how this intense underground battle was fought and won. The authors give the first full account of mine warfare in World War I through the words of the tunnellers themselves as well as plans, drawings, and previously unpublished archive photographs, many in colour. Beneath Flanders Fields also shows how military mining evolved. The tunnellers constructed hundreds of deep dugouts that housed tens of thousands of troops. Often electrically lit and ventilated, these tunnels incorporated headquarters, cookhouses, soup kitchens, hospitals, drying rooms, and workshops. A few dugouts survive today, a final physical legacy of the Great War, and are seen for the first time in photographs in Beneath Flanders Fields. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. More Details Original Title. Other Editions 5. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Beneath Flanders Fieldsplease Beneath Flanders Fields: The Tunnellers War up. Be the first to ask a question about Beneath Flanders Fields. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Oct 27, Carl 1914-1918 it it was amazing. A superb book. Very informative and relays great detail of the tunnels and work carried out by the Royal engineers. Sep 17, Edoardo Albert rated it it was amazing. The chorus runs, with Spider Stacey bashing an empty beer tray on his head for percussion, "I don't want to go down in the ground where the dead men go. This was a silent war, a dark war, a secret war, of tunnellers digging in absolute quiet under enemy lines to lay mines there, sending up volcanoes of earth and rock and bodies when they blew. For the troops, sheltering in trenches from the shells and artillery from above, to have the earth below erupt and swallow them was particularly demoralising. Peter Barton and his co-authors do an extraordinary job of bringing this forgotten theatre of the War back to life, mingling first-hand reports and memoirs with broader history and recent archaeology, much of it their own. It was one theatre of the war where the British gained complete mastery, outengineering the Germans, and this underground dominance played Beneath Flanders Fields: The Tunnellers War large part in the British victories of A superb history of a largely unknown aspect of the war. May 16, Roger Barker added it. An excellent insight into a period of history previously unknown in such depth the photographs are superb a thoroughly good read. Jun 23, Bella added it. Very interesting and informative but 1914-1918 be completely honest, I didn't read it cover to Beneath Flanders Fields: The Tunnellers War. 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Anthony marked it as to-read Apr Beneath Flanders Fields: The Tunnellers War, Veeral marked it as to-read May 04, There are no discussion topics on this book yet. About Peter Doyle. Peter Doyle. Military strategists and pundits alike often refer to warfare in terms of three domains — namely land, sea, and air. In each of these venues, armed combatants struggle to defeat their adversaries and open a path to the political objectives that drive a conflict. However, a fourth domain is often overlooked in discussions of warfare, one that has been utilized as a means of covert approach toward enemy forces for thousands of years, and has recently been utilized to great asymmetric effect against some of the most powerful conventional forces on earth. This forgotten domain is the Beneath Flanders Fields: The Tunnellers War of underground tunneling, as a means to create a subterranean axis of advance. While it might not share the glamor of the other domains, it has often been used to decisive effect throughout the recorded history of 1914-1918 conflict. Traditionally, tunnels have mostly been used as a means to approach and threaten fortified positions. The resulting breach was then stormed by infantry, who hoped to pour through the opening and overwhelm the defenders before the gap could be plugged. Of course, ancient defenders knew the dangers of tunnel and sapping operations, and they devised means to detect any enemy tunneling activity. One method was to place drums at key points along the defensive line, and monitor them constantly for the telltale vibrations produced by digging through the earth. Others used bowls of water set along the tops of walls, which also responded to underground disturbances. These methods allowed a crude form of triangulation, by which the defenders could chart Beneath Flanders Fields: The Tunnellers War progress of the approaching tunnels. A brutal hand-to-hand fight 1914-1918 the darkness followed, with the 1914-1918 defenders hoping to kill the enemy miners and collapse their tunnels before they put the fortifications at risk.