Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter 1
2. Contents 3
3. Foreword 5
4. Preface 7
5. Authors’ Note 9
6. Abbreviations 9
7. Introduction 10
8. Flanders Fields: The Ypres Salient 13
9. From Siege War to World War 27
10. Sappers and Miners 40
11. Mine Warfare, Tunnellers and Pioniere, 1915 53
12. Kriegsgeologie: Going Underground 71
13. The Silent War 97
14. Enemies Below 125
15. The Mine War Deepens, 1915–1917 142
16. ‘Earthquaking’ The Ridge: Messines, June 1917 162
17. Mountains in the Sky: Messines and After 184
18. ‘A Hole in the Ground With a Lid On’ 202
19. Degrees of Protection, 1917–1918 224
20. Back to the Front: The Legacy 264
21. Epilogue 289
22. Sources 294
23. Bibliography 297
24. Picture and Illustration References 300
25. Index 301