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Re:Anatomy of a World War I Artillery Barrage by camtarn on Tuesday July 05, 2016 @06:40AM (#12035519)
There's a good BBC article on it here, with a lot of detail about the people behind the tunnelling schemes, and the horror of digging in complete silence, listening out for enemy miners who might be just inches away:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-36685270

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Re:Anatomy of a World War I Artillery Barrage by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday July 05, 2016 @09:09AM (#12036125)
Glad you posted that, didn't know where I'd read it. Good read on an aspect of the trench war I hadn't heard about before.
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