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This absorbing illustrated study reveals the evolving tactics and techniques used by all sides in the underground war during 191418.

Covering the Western Front but also the Gallipoli and Italian theatres, this study explores three aspects of World War I below ground: military mining, attack tunnels and dugouts. In 191417, the underground war was a product of static trench warfare, essential to survive it and part of both sides' attempts to overcome it. In 191718 it was rendered largely obsolete by the development of the all-arms battle as mobility was restored to the battlefield.

In the stagnant, troglodyte existence of trench warfare, military mining was a hidden world of heroism and terror in which hours of suspenseful listening were spent monitoring the steady picking of unseen opponents, edging quietly towards the enemy, and judging when to fire a charge. Break-ins to enemy mine galleries resulted in hand-to-hand fighting in the darkness. The ingenuity, cla

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      Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 5/23/2024
      ISBN13: 9781472861054, 978-1472861054
      ISBN10: 1472861051
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      Military History First World War

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This absorbing illustrated study reveals the evolving tactics and techniques used by all sides in the underground war during 191418.

      Covering the Western Front but also the Gallipoli and Italian theatres, this study explores three aspects of World War I below ground: military mining, attack tunnels and dugouts. In 191417, the underground war was a product of static trench warfare, essential to survive it and part of both sides' attempts to overcome it. In 191718 it was rendered largely obsolete by the development of the all-arms battle as mobility was restored to the battlefield.

      In the stagnant, troglodyte existence of trench warfare, military mining was a hidden world of heroism and terror in which hours of suspenseful listening were spent monitoring the steady picking of unseen opponents, edging quietly towards the enemy, and judging when to fire a charge. Break-ins to enemy mine galleries resulted in hand-to-hand fighting in the darkness. The ingenuity, cla

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