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Beneath Hill 60 (häftad, eng)
''Ten seconds, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one - fire! Down goes the firing switch. At first, nothing. Then from...
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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 YpresThe 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 soldiersDrawing 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...
Format | Häftad |
Omfång | 288 sidor |
Språk | Engelska |
Förlag | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
Utgivningsdatum | 2010-09-30 |
ISBN | 9780857500496 |
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- Häftad, 288, Engelska, Transworld Publishers Ltd, 2010-09-30, 9780857500496
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Specifikation
Böcker
- Format Häftad
- Antal sidor 288
- Språk Engelska
- Förlag Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Utgivningsdatum 2010-09-30
- ISBN 9780857500496