TUNNEL-MASTER AND ARSONIST OF THE GREAT WAR The Norton-Griffiths Story

Sir John Norton-Griffiths was the colourful MP and Engineer who was the father of Britain’s mine warfare on the western front, recruiting colliers to dig tunnels under enemy lines. This biography tells the story of the man whose work culminated in the simultaneous explosion of 20 mines at Messines in June 1917 – arguably the most complete British victory of the whole war.