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The Wipers Times: The Complete Series of the Famous Wartime Trench Newspaper - Ian Hislop
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The Wipers Times: The Complete Series of the Famous Wartime Trench Newspaper - Ian Hislop
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In February 1916, Captain F. J. Roberts of the British Expeditionary Force produced the first edition of "The Wipers Times." Usually produced in hazardous conditions--at one point production was only 700 yards from the front line--it acted as the voice of the average soldier as it relayed his experiences, grief, and anger. Articles were written by soldiers during their limited free time while in dugouts, reserve lines, or on rest, and were paired with poetry and jokes as well as comical advertisements and music hall parodies. Recreated here in facsimile are every volume of "The Times" up through its last issue, released after the end of the war in December 1...
Full bibliographic data for The Wipers Times
- Title
- The Wipers Times
- Subtitle
- The Complete Series of the Famous Wartime Trench Newspaper
- Authors and contributors
- Foreword by Ian Hislop, Introduction by Malcolm Brown
- Physical properties
- Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
Width: 197 mm
Height: 254 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight: 680 g - Language
- English
- ISBN
- ISBN 13: 9781906251178
ISBN 10: 1906251177 - Classifications
Warengruppen-Systematik des deutschen Buchhandels: 25590
B&T Merchandise Category: GEN
B&T Book Type: NF
BIC subject category V2: HBG
Nielsen BookScan Product Class 3: T3.4
BIC E4L: LIT
BIC time period qualifier V2: 3JJF
B&T Modifier: Region of Publication: 03
LCification: PN
Libri: I-HP
BIC subject category V2: HBWN
B&T General Subject: 480
Ingram Subject Code: HP
BISAC V2.8: LAN008000
LC subject heading:
Ingram Theme: CHRN/PREWWI
BIC subject category V2: DNJ,WHP
BISAC V2.8: HIS027090
BIC subject category V2: 3JJF
DC22: 828.91207,940.48
LC subject heading:- Illustrations note
- Illustrations, map
- Publisher
- Max Press
- Imprint name
- Max Press
- Publication date
- 18 August 2008
- Publication City/Country
- West Sussex
- Author Information
- Malcolm Brown is the author of "Lawrence of Arabia: The Selected Letters, " the Pan Ground Strategy series," " and "Suffering from Cheerfulness." Ian Hislop is the editor of "Private Eye" magazine.