Beneath Hill 60
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:Penguin Classics
Fr. 31.90
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
30.09.2010
Abbildungen
1 x 16pp b & w photographic inset
Verlag
Penguin ClassicsSeitenzahl
288
Maße (L/B/H)
19.8/12.7/1.5 cm
Gewicht
209 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-85750-049-6
'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...
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