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Chargement... The Wipers Timespar Malcolm Brown
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I watched a BBC TV adaptation of The Wipers Times a couple of years ago and saw the stage show a few weeks back. I enjoyed them both, but have to confess that the magazine itself failed to win me over. Despite helpful notes and a glossary of place names much of the newspaper went over my head; there was a surfeit of rather samey poetry and some of the featured articles (eg Herlock Sholmes) I found plain boring. I gave up reading after 90+ pages. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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 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. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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