Peter Barton (historian)

Peter Arthur Barton (born 28 March 1955) is a British military historian, author and filmmaker specialising in trench warfare during World War I.

In 2005, Barton published Beneath Flanders Fields, a history of the British tunnellers fighting in the Ypres Salient from 1914 to 1918, for which he collaborated with Peter Doyle and Johan Vandewalle.

Between 2006 and 2011, Barton rediscovered and published several panoramic perspectives of the Western Front which allow readers to view the battlefields from the Belgian coast to the British lines at the Somme.

[3][4] Barton has also worked alongside Glasgow University Archaeology Research Division[5] to locate and explore mass graves at the Pheasant Wood site at Fromelles.

The area (known in the First World War as Îlot de La Boisselle to the French, as Granathof to the Germans and as Glory Hole to the British) still has mine craters as well as traces of trenches, shelters and tunnels related to underground warfare in this former sector of the front line.