Fighting The Boche Underground
Gelesen von Paul Hampton
Harry Davis Trounce
(4,682 Sterne; 11 Bewertungen)
Harry Trounce was an American mining engineer of British birth and parentage who joined the British Army in October 1915. After the briefest of training in England and France he joined the 181st Tunnelling Company at Silly-sur-la-Lys in Flanders in January 1916. This book is a detailed blow-by-blow (in every sense of the words) account of life underground as a junior officer in this company. - Summary by Paul Hampton (4 hr 39 min)
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A Historic True Life Account
Paul Billingham
(5 Sterne)
There has been recent rediscovery of these mine workings in France and Belgium. It is amazing to hear the words written by someone who was there. A well read account by the volunteer reader and a very harrowing account of this long past piece of military history.