{"product_id":"beneath-hill-60-film-tie-in","title":"Beneath Hill 60 Film Tie In By Davies, Will","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e''Ten seconds, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one - fire! Down goes the firing switch. At first, nothing. Then from deep down there comes a low rumble, and it as if the world is spliting apart...''\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn 7th June 1917, nineteen massive mines exploded beneath Messines Ridge near Ypres. The largest man-made explosion in history up until that point shattered the landscape and smashed open the German lines. Ten thousand German soldiers died. \u003cbr\u003eTwo of the mines - at Hill 60 and the Caterpillar - were fired by men of the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company, comprising miners and engineers rather than parade-ground soldiers. Drawing on the diaries of one of the key combatants, \u003ci\u003eBenealth Hill 60\u003c\/i\u003e tells the little-known, devastatingly brutal true story of this subterranean war waged beneath the Western Front - a stygian battle-ground where men drowned in viscous chalk, suffocated in the blue gray clay, choked on poisonous air or died in the darkness, caught up up in vicious hand-to-hand fighting...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57772336546174,"sku":"NW9780857500496","price":16.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780857500496.jpg?v=1785444701","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/beneath-hill-60-film-tie-in","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}