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Could anything be worse than to crouch in a trench in Flanders, waiting for the barrage to stop and the order to go over the top? Perhaps: to be tunnelling beneath the mud, knowing full well that the enemy was listening intently and was making its own tunnels coming towards you. Using orginal testimony and with the aid not only of original maps and photographs but of specially commissioned artwork, Beneath Flanders Field tells the full story of the staggering engineering achievements. Private John Lister on the 'earthquaking' of the Messines ridge: 'It was like a mountain standing in the sky, a mountain ... I Thought ""I wonder how many poor buggers have gone up with that lot"".'

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PETER DOYLE specialises in the understanding of military terrain, with special reference to the two world wars. A member of the British Commission of Military History, and co-secretary of the Parliamentary All Party War Graves and Battlefield Heritage Group, he is the author of a number of works of military history.

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