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Underground Warfare in World War I: The History and Legacy of the Fighting Beneath and Between the Trenches

Underground Warfare in World War I: The History and Legacy of the Fighting Beneath and Between the Trenches

Paperback

World War I

ISBN10: 197391946X
ISBN13: 9781973919469
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 25 2017
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.17 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
*Includes pictures
*Includes accounts of mining by soldiers on both sides
*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading
It was a pretty gloomy business. We started sinking this shaft and it filled with water, so we pumped it out with hand pumps-lift and force. We got down about 10 feet or so. It was heartbreaking-I hated it. But I had to keep my men going. The Boche [Germans] saved us. We were making a lot of noise with spiling [timbering the tunnels]. The Boche opposite us were Saxons, rather friendly, and they put up a notice on a blackboard 'No good your mining. We've tried. It can't be done.' The notice was in English. I reported this to my OC and it went up to HQ and they stopped the mine. - Major General F. Gordon Hyland

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