The Wipers Times: The Complete Series of the Famous Wartime Trench Newspaper

About this book

In February 1916 Captain F. J. Roberts of the British Expeditionary Force produced the first edition of The Wipers Times. Usually produced in hazardous conditionsat one point production was only 700 yards from the front lineit 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 1918. Sometimes irreverent and often hysterical the humor and satire of these papers provide an excellent insight into life in the trenches during World War I.