"The story here told is how the Imperial mines from all over the world, after a bad start in December, 1914, fought the German miners, and had finally beaten them at every oint of the game by the time the mines of Messines had been fired in 1917." -- From the foreword.

Includes indices.

Forward / by Major-General R. Napier Harvey -- Introduction / Bernard Newman -- The birth of the Tunnelling companies -- 1915 -- Gallipoli -- Spring, 1916 -- The Somme, 1916 -- Arras, 1917 -- Givenchy, the bluff – and elsewhere -- Fosse 8 -- Nieuport, 1917 -- Messines, 1917 -- Passchendaele -- The March retreat, 1918 -- Givenchy and the Lys, 1918 -- The turn of the tide -- The Tunnellers’ friends -- Conclusion.