Underground Warfare 1914-1918
“Underground Warfare 1914-1918” by Simon Jones, published by Pen & Sword Military in 2010, offers a detailed exploration of underground combat during World War I. This first edition spans 288 pages and is presented in English. The book utilizes personal reminiscences to illustrate the dangers and suspense inherent in this unconventional form of warfare, focusing on the fierce competition between British tunneling companies and their adversaries on the Western Front.
Readers will find a comprehensive account of the tactics and methods employed by soldiers engaged in subterranean battles, including the technical challenges and risks associated with tunneling. Jones also delves into lesser-known conflicts, such as those fought in the French sectors and the Alpine battles between Austrians and Italians, providing insights that have not been previously documented in English. This work combines vivid personal testimony with a clear narrative, offering an in-depth look at the unique experiences of soldiers involved in underground warfare.
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Simon Jones’s 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.
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