Beneath Flanders Fields The Tunnellers' War 1914-1918 Date of
publication: 2007 Whilst the war raged across Flanders fields,
an equally horrifying and sometimes more dangerous battle took
place underground. Beneath Flanders Fields tells the story of
the tunnellers’ war, which still remains one of the most
misunderstood, misrepresented and mystifying conflicts of the
Great War. A wealth of personal testimonies reveal the
engineering, technology and science behind how this most intense
of battles was fought – and won. They speak of how the
tunnellers lived a relentless existence in the depths of the
battlefield for almost two and a half years, enduring physical
and mental stresses that were often more extreme than their
infantry counterparts. Their lives were reduced to a complex war
of silence, tension and claustrophobia, leading up to the most
dramatic mine offensive in history launched on 7 June 1917 at
Messines Ridge. Yet, Messines was not the end of their story,
which continued with the crafting of a whole