Beneath Hill 60
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Beneath Hill 60
Beneath Hill 60

Beneath Hill 60

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Will Davies (Author)  

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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... 1 x 16pp b & w photographic inset
Will Davies is an historian and film-maker. He edited the war diaries of E P F Lynch into the acclaimed and bestselling memoir Somme Mud, and wrote its companion volume, In the Footseps of Private Lynch. He lives in Sydney.
  • Contributor: Will Davies
  • Imprint: Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
  • ISBN13: 9780857500496
  • Number of Pages: 288
  • Packaged Dimensions: 127x198x18mm
  • Packaged Weight: 209
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
  • Release Date: 2010-09-30
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Will Davies is an historian and film-maker. He edited the war diaries of E P F Lynch into the acclaimed and bestselling memoir Somme Mud, and wrote its companion volume, In the Footseps of Private Lynch. He lives in Sydney.

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