Beneath Flanders Fields

Author : Peter Barton,Peter Doyle,Johan Vandewalle
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0773529497

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Beneath Flanders Fields by Peter Barton,Peter Doyle,Johan Vandewalle Pdf

"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 "In the words of the tunnellers themselves, and through previously unpublished photographs - many in colour - as well as contemporary plans and drawings, this book reveals how this most intense of battles was fought - and won. Few on the surface knew the horrific details of the tunnellers' work, yet this silent, claustrophobic conflict was a barbaric struggle that raged day and night for almost two and a half years, and one which generated mental and physical stresses often far beyond those suffered by the infantry in the trenches. On 7 June 1917 at Messines Ridge, the tension was broken with the opening of the most dramatic mine offensive in history."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Peter Barton,Peter Doyle,Johan Vandewalle
Publisher : Spellmount, Limited Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Flanders (Belgium)
ISBN : 186227357X

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Beneath Flanders Fields by Peter Barton,Peter Doyle,Johan Vandewalle Pdf

Whilst the war raged across Flanders fields, an equally horrifying and sometimes more dangerous battle took place underground. "Beneath Flanders Fields" tells the story of the tunnellers' war, which still remains one of the most misunderstood, misrepresented and mystifying conflicts of the Great War. A wealth of personal testimonies reveal the engineering, technology and science behind how this most intense of battles was fought - and won. They speak of how the tunnellers lived a relentless existence in the depths of the battlefield for almost two and a half years, enduring physical and mental stresses that were often more extreme than their infantry counterparts. Their lives were reduced to a complex war of silence, tension and claustrophobia, leading up to the most dramatic mine offensive in history launched on 7 June 1917 at Messines Ridge. Yet, Messines was not the end of their story, which continued with the crafting of a whole underground world of headquarters, cookhouses and hospitals, housing the innumerable troops who passed through this part of the Western Front. Here, this extraordinary, hidden world is revealed and the fragile legacy it has left behind on Flanders fields is brought to light.

Author : Peter Barton,Peter Doyle,Johan Vandewalle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : First World War
ISBN : OCLC:797939435

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Author : Peter Barton,Peter Doyle,John Vandewalle
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773573116

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Beneath Flanders Fields by Peter Barton,Peter Doyle,John Vandewalle Pdf

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 presented for the first time in photographs in Beneath Flanders Fields.

Author : Matthew Leonard
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473884113

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Beneath the Killing Fields by Matthew Leonard Pdf

Beneath the Killing Fields of the Western Front still lies a hidden landscape of industrialised conflict virtually untouched since 1918. This subterranean world is an ambiguous environment filled with material culture that that objectifies the scope and depth of human interaction with the diverse conflict landscapes of modern war. Covering the military reasoning for taking the war underground, as well as exploring the way that human beings interacted with these extraordinary alien environments, this book provides a more all-encompassing overview of the Western Front. The underground war was intrinsic to trench warfare and involved far more than simply trying to destroy the enemys trenches from below. It also served as a home to thousands of men, protecting them from the metallic landscapes of the surface. With the aid of cutting edge fieldwork conducted by the author in these subterranean locales, this book combines military history, archaeology and anthropology together with primary data and unique imagery of British, French, German and American underground defences in order to explore the realities of subterranean warfare on the Western Front, and the effects on the human body and mind that living and fighting underground inevitably entailed.

Author : Sebastian Faulks
Publisher : Random House
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781804944189

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Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks Pdf

'Magnificent - deeply moving' Sunday Times 'Engrossing, moving, and unforgettable' The Times In the heat of the French summer of 1910, young Englishman Stephen Wraysford arrives in Amiens to stay with the Azaire family. But soon a secret passion emerges that threatens to destroy the household. Six years later, Stephen finds himself on the Western Front with civilization itself in the balance. And in a maze of tunnels under the trenches he will fight for everything he has known and loved. An epic of love, death and redemption, Birdsong has moved millions of readers all over the world to become a contemporary classic.

Author : Leon Wolff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Belgium
ISBN : LCCN:67027008

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In Flanders Fields, the 1917 Campaign by Leon Wolff Pdf

Author : Alexander Barrie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258515431

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War Underground by Alexander Barrie Pdf

Author : Peter Barton
Publisher : Spellmount, Limited Publishers
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1862275378

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Beneath Flanders Fields by Peter Barton Pdf

Author : James Arthur Ainscow Stockwin,Arthur Stockwin
Publisher : Parapress Limited
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1898594805

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Thirty-odd Feet Below Belgium by James Arthur Ainscow Stockwin,Arthur Stockwin Pdf

Author : Norman Jorgensen
Publisher : Fremantle Press
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781925162608

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In Flanders Fields by Norman Jorgensen Pdf

An eloquent counterpoint to the senselessness and inhumanity of war, In Flanders Fields tells the story of a young homesick World War I soldier who risks his life to cross the no-man’s-land and rescue a robin caught in the barbed wire that separates the opposing forces.

Author : Peter Barton,Jeremy Banning
Publisher : Constable & Robinson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Photography, Panoramic
ISBN : 1472111923

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The Battlefields of the First World War by Peter Barton,Jeremy Banning Pdf

Here are the great battlefields of the First World War as you have never seen them before, from the first cavalry skirmishes, through the horrors of the Somme and Passchendaele, to the final weeks of conflict. A revelatory, unique collection of panoramic photographs covering the whole of the British sectors of the Western Front, end to end. No other work shows like this the actual ground on which the battles were fought and about which so many words continue to be written. The vast battlescapes are interspersed with poignant individual photographs and the recollections of the soldiers caught in the action. The last time most of the panoramas were viewed - in the trenches - they were marked TOP-SECRET and destined for the eyes of the commanding officer only. Taken at huge personal risk by specialist photographers during the war, the panoramas reveal what no other photographs can - the view beyond the trench parapet - and a great deal more. Each panorama offers a view of up to 160 degrees, so sharply focused that the individual figures of a waiting sniper or a soldier picking lice from his shirt can be made out. They document a lost world. This slipcased edition features 60 recently discovered German panoramas, plus a DVD containing the full complement of 350 panoramas in interactive, zoomable form; as well as updated mapping throughout.

Author : Beatrix Brice
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473843028

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The Battle Book of Ypres by Beatrix Brice Pdf

Of the many hard-fought battles on the Western Front, Ypres stands out as an example of almost inhuman endeavour. For four long years it was the focal point of desperate fighting. Officially there were four main battles in 1914, 1915, 1917 and 1918; these were more accurately peaks in a continuing struggle, for Ypres symbolised Belgian defiance, and the British continued to expend disproportionate resources on defending it. It never fell, although the Germans came close to its gates, and indeed its loss would have been a severe blow to morale.The Battle Book of Ypres, originally published in 1927 and now presented again as a special Centenary Edition, comprises a chronological account of the fighting in the Ypres Salient during the First World War, followed by a useful and unique alphabetical reference to the events in and around each hamlet, village or wood names familiar to those who fought or followed the course of war all those years ago, names now once again lost in insignificance. The names given to each stage of the struggle by the Battle Nomenclature Committee are listed in the appendix. Also included is an index of formations and units, an annotated bibliography and a new Foreword by military historian Nigel Cave.

Author : Birger Stichelbaut
Publisher : Hannibal
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10
Category : Military archaeology
ISBN : 9492677512

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Traces of War by Birger Stichelbaut Pdf

At the end of the First World War, the landscape of the Western Front in Flanders had been transformed into a wasteland. After the war, the population returned, faced with the enormous challenge of rebuilding the region and making it inhabitable again. All traces of the war were wiped out, leaving only what was left in the ground - what is now the archaeological soil archive. Throughout the Westhoek, 30 centimetres beneath the ground and invisible to the naked eye, the archaeological remains of the war lie dormant. This book, the first of its kind, is a compendium of the findings of ten years of First World War archaeology in Belgium. Clearly written, it looks at many spectacular finds resulting from excavations at more than 150 sites in the front-line region, and also delves into the unexpected role of the landscape as the last witness of the war. These material remains from military camps, hospitals and trenches illustrate day-to-day life at the front, while also looking at the personal fates of several of the fallen soldiers - and many horses. The text is supported by a wealth of visual data, including photographs of excavated artefacts, maps, aerial photographs and other archive material.

Author : Stephen Chambers
Publisher : Battleground Gallipoli
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 1473825644

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Walking Gallipoli by Stephen Chambers Pdf

Gallipoli was a First World War tragedy, a side show that had ambitious hopes to end the war early. Despite the immense gallantry displayed by those fighting, from the beginning, this grand scale 1915 operation was plagued with mismanagement; failure in high places that betrayed the heroism in the field. Though a noble disaster with casualties of over half a million, those who visit Gallipoli today owe it to those who served and died a conscious effort to see beyond the heartbreak and futility, to appreciate the what, the how and the why. There is no better way to do this today other than walking the battlefields with this invaluable guide. From the beaches and fields of Helles, to the precipitous heights of Anzac and to the plains of Suvla, this book guides the walker to the key points of the campaign. Infamous names that are synonymous with the fighting are covered; Sedd-el Bahr, Krithia, Achi Baba, The Vineyard, Gully Ravine, Kereviz Dere, Lone Pine, The Nek, Chunuk Bair, Lala Baba, Chocolate Hill, Kidney Hill and Kiretch Tepe. All of these features are set in a haunting scene of beauty and tragedy that still pervades this eastern Mediterranean peninsula. In total there are ten walks, some challenging, others not, with a narrative that helps make sense of it all.