• The yellow book cover of The Wipers Times: The Famous First World War Trench Newspaper showcases an illustration of a soldier and dandelions outlining the top.

The Wipers Times

The Wipers Times

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The yellow book cover of The Wipers Times: The Famous First World War Trench Newspaper showcases an illustration of a soldier and dandelions outlining the top.

The Wipers Times

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edited by Christopher Westhorp
Hardcover

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 humor, fake entertainment programs and pastiche articles, and constitutes a unique record of life on the wartime front line.

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.

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