On the morning of the 28 June 1914 two pistol shots fired in a Sarajevo street had plunged the world into war and pitched men of all nations into battle. By 1917, men faced one another over a narrow strip of No-Man’s-Land, unable to advance without incurring massive casualties.
One group, though, could move across that gulf much more easily, for they were tunnellers who operated deep in the earth. Yet even they were far from safe. This is the story of… The Miners of Messines.
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