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Title: THE WIPERS TIMES
THE FAMOUS FIRST WORLD WAR TRENCH NEWSPAPER
By: Christopher Westhorp (Editor), Christopher Westhorp, Christopher Westhorp
Format: Hardback

List price: £9.99


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ISBN 10: 184486233X
ISBN 13: 9781844862337
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
Pub. date: 10 September, 2013
Pages: 336
Description: The bestselling facsimile reproduction of the famed trench newspaper of the First World War - a unique portrait of life on the wartime frontline.
Synopsis: Decades ahead of the amusing but distorting buffoonery of Blackadder Goes Forth, this complete edition of the Wipers Times, the famed trench newspaper of the First World War, is an extraordinary mix of black humour, fake entertainment programmes and pastiche articles, and constitutes a unique record of life on the wartime frontline. From its long-running cartoon pun (Are We Being Offensive Enough?) to its brilliantly subversive column Things We Want to Know (the name of the officer who originated the idea), its hilarious spoof ads to its pastiche fake contributors (Belary Helloc), this complete facsimile edition of the Wipers Times, produced to accompany the BBC dramatization, is a historical masterpiece that enables us to sample the real spirit of the trenches . . . from the safety of our armchairs. If you can drink the beer the Belgians sell you, And pay the price they ask with ne'er a grouse, If you believe the tales that some will tell you, And live in mud with ground sheet for a house, If you can live on bully and a biscuit,And thank your stars that you've a tot of rum, Dodge whizzbangs with a grin, and as you risk it Talk glibly of the pretty way they hum. . .
Publication: UK
Imprint: Conway
Returns: Returnable
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