the riddles of wipers

1997, 1st Edition. Near fine book in fine dust jacket, righthand bottomcorner front board slightly bumped (not visible when covered with DJ). DJ in protective wrapper. Additional images available upon request.

The Wipers Times was the Private Eye of the Ypres Salient during World war One. Edited while under bombardment, by a battalion commander in the Sherwood Foresters, written by soldiers actually in the trenches and distributed by ration-wagon and ammunition-mule, the paper bears vivid witness to the shocking realities of trench Warfare. Yet for all the occasional horror of its content The Wipers Times was a gentle, humourfilled and satirical paper which, once its codes are cracked and its riddles solved, tells an interesting reader much about the characters and personalities of the men in the British Army of the First World War.