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Givenchy in the Great War – a Village on the Front Line
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Reviewed Stephen Broomfield. I am sure many reading this review will have visited Givenchy - lying as it does in a central part of the British line and close to the scenes of major engagements. Givenchy in the Great War is possibly the first study of a single geographic location during the war. The author’s focus is the village - mentioning oth...
ONLINE: 'The War Underground 1914-18' by Simon Jones
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Caption: The desolate landscape at Éparges About the talk: In 1914, the ancient siegecraft of military mining was revived with the onset of trench warfare. As it escalated, it drew in thousands of skilled miners and mining engineers to dig hundreds of miles of tunnels and detonate thousands of underground charges of up to 50 tonnes, leaving the...