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Beneath the Killing Fields: Exploring the Subterranean Landscapes of the Western Front
Matthew Leonard
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Description for Beneath the Killing Fields: Exploring the Subterranean Landscapes of the Western Front
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Beneath the Killing Fields of the Western Front still lies a hidden landscape of industrialised conflict virtually untouched since 1918. This subterranean world is an ambiguous environment filled with material culture that that objectifies the scope and depth of human interaction with the diverse conflict landscapes of modern war. Covering the military reasoning for taking the war underground, as well as exploring the way that human beings interacted with these extraordinary alien environments, this book provides a more all-encompassing overview of the Western Front. The underground war was intrinsic to trench warfare and involved far more than simply trying to ... Read more
Beneath the Killing Fields of the Western Front still lies a hidden landscape of industrialised conflict virtually untouched since 1918. This subterranean world is an ambiguous environment filled with material culture that that objectifies the scope and depth of human interaction with the diverse conflict landscapes of modern war. Covering the military reasoning for taking the war underground, as well as exploring the way that human beings interacted with these extraordinary alien environments, this book provides a more all-encompassing overview of the Western Front. The underground war was intrinsic to trench warfare and involved far more than simply trying to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
642g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Barnsley, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783463060
SKU
V9781783463060
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99-3
About Matthew Leonard
Matthew Leonard's research is concerned with the engagement of man and the underground worlds of the Western Front during the First World War. As a conflict archaeologist, Matthew's research adopts a modern interdisciplinary approach, incorporating elements of several disciplines to examine how these subterranean landscapes were created and experienced, and how existentialism, sensorial interaction and the human body coped with ... Read more
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