Huge Explosion on Western Front. Tunnelers Digging for Months; Explosion Heard in London. Special to The Great War Project. (4 June) In northern France a century ago, British soldiers are digging a tunnel. Actually they are digging many tunnels, a whole complex of tunnels and mines. “In an epic doggedness,” writes historian Norman Stone, “miners…
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UNCOMMON TALES OF COMPASSION AND ‘GENUINE GOODWILL’
by Mike Shuster
The Stench of Death; Fears of Being Buried Alive A Rescuer is Rescued. Special to The Great War Project (29-31 July) The deadlock continues on the Gallipoli Peninsula in northwest Turkey. The defending Turks and the attacking allied troops of Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand dig miles of barbed-wire protected trenches. This transforms the…