How Birdsong creates a replica of first world war's tunnels
Expert archaeologist helped drama producers make exact model of underground network
The horrors of tunnel warfare are key to Sebastian Faulks's first world war novel, Birdsong. Much of the action is set beneath no man's land in a terrifying world where soldiers dug, listened for the enemy and laid explosives in the hope of helping their compatriots above ground.
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Sunday, 22 January, 2012
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