Author: Davies, Will.
Title: Beneath Hill 60: The Australian Miners' Secret Warfare Beneath the Trenches of the Western Front.
Description: Sydney Vintage / Random House, 2010. Reprint ed. Paperback octavo, very good condition, small mark top edge, top corner tip rear cover little worn, minor edgewear. 272 pp. On June 7 1917, 19 massive mines shattered the Messines Ridge near Ypres. This is the untold brutal story of the battle underground during the First World War, where men suffocated in the blue-grey clay, drowned in the liquid chalk, choked on the poisonous air or died violently in the darkness and fetid air in hand-to-hand fighting. The author tells the complete and inspiring story behind the major Australian motion picture. ISBN: 9781741669367

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