Underground warfare 1914-1918 /

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Author / Creator:	Jones, Simon, 1964-
Imprint:	Barnsley : Pen & Sword Military, 2010.
Description:	1 online resource : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	World War, 1914-1918 -- Tunnel warfare. World War, 1914-1918 -- Engineering and construction. World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives. World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Western Front. Military campaigns. Tunnel warfare. Western Front (World War (1914-1918)) Electronic books. Personal narratives.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11136452

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ISBN:	9781844684700 1844684709 9781783370641 1783370645 9781844159628 1844159620
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Jones, Simon, 1964- Underground warfare 1914-1918. Barnsley : Pen & Sword Military, 2010 9781844159628

Table of 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

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