Beneath Hill 60 Paperback / softback
by Will Davies
Paperback / softback
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'Ten seconds, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one - fire!
Down goes the firing switch. At first, nothing. Then from deep down there comes a low rumble, and it as if the world is spliting apart...'On 7th June 1917, nineteen massive mines exploded beneath Messines Ridge near Ypres.
The largest man-made explosion in history up until that point shattered the landscape and smashed open the German lines.
Ten thousand German soldiers died. Two of the mines - at Hill 60 and the Caterpillar - were fired by men of the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company, comprising miners and engineers rather than parade-ground soldiers.
Drawing on the diaries of one of the key combatants, Benealth Hill 60 tells the little-known, devastatingly brutal true story of this subterranean war waged beneath the Western Front - a stygian battle-ground where men drowned in viscous chalk, suffocated in the blue gray clay, choked on poisonous air or died in the darkness, caught up up in vicious hand-to-hand fighting...
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages, 1 x 16pp b & w photographic inset
- Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Publication Date:30/09/2010
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- ISBN:9780857500496
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages, 1 x 16pp b & w photographic inset
- Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Publication Date:30/09/2010
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- ISBN:9780857500496