The Hidden War: Australian Tunnellers and the Fight for the Western Front
English | 2026 | ISBN: 9781923514874 | 454 pages | True EPUB | 83.02 MB
The Hidden War is the first complete and meticulously researched history of Australia's tunnelling companies from 1914 to 1919. Drawing on personal accounts, operational files and years of detailed investigation, Damien Finlayson reveals the scale, science and nerve of this underground conflict: the clay-kickers and miners who pushed towards enemy lines; the engineers who calculated blast strengths and shaft supports; and the teams who wired vast underground mines that shaped battles at Fromelles, Arras, Messines, Passchendaele, Cambrai, the Lys and in the defence of Amiens.