Tunnel Warfare Vol.2 Early Tunnel Warfare

122 Pages, hundreds of illustrations, in an 8½ x 11 inch format, with bibliography and index
ISBN: 1-886848-13-0 {Item No.13} Price 20.00

Volume two is a collection of detailed instructions in military mining for military engineers, written in the last half of the 1800’s. A detailed look at procedures, tools and operations, it is a must for anyone who wants to understand the technology of military mining, tunnel warfare, and tunnel shelters.

CONTENTS 
PART ONE. AIDE-MEMOIRE TO THE MILITARY SCIENCES 
  Vol. II, “Mines, Military”, pages 361-425]
  by The Corps of Royal Engineers (1860)	     
I.  Introductory Remarks
II. Practical Operations of Mining
III.Charges of Mines	 
IV. System of Counter or Defensive Mines
V.  Attack and Defense of a System of Countermines
Appendix  
I.  Observations upon Mine Frames for Field Service
II. Record of various Experiments made in Mining Operations
III.[Notes on Mining Operations]
IV. Ventilation of Mines 
Plates
PART TWO. MANUAL FOR ENGINEER TROOPS 
  “Military Mining”, pages 203-207		 
  by Captain J.C.Duane (1863)
IV. Practical Operations in Mining
PART THREE. MILITARY ENGINEERING PART I. 
  “Military Mines”, pages 127-180, 195-199
  by D.H.Mahan,LLD.(1865).	
MILITARY MINES
I.  Nomenclature, Experiments, and Theory of the  
    Explosion of Mines
II. Practical Details and Operations	
III.Conditions to be Satisfied in Arranging a System of Mines
IV. Examples of Remarkable Military Mining Operations
SIEGE OPERATIONS, ATTACK BY REGULAR APPROACHES	 
[From pages 195-199] 
II. Covered Trenches and Passage of Ditches
Bibliography
Index.