Product reviewsThe WIPERS TIMES by Not Available (Hardcover, 2013)

Fascinating insight

Heard about the Wipers Times on Radio 4 and wanted to discover more
I'm not big on history but this is really interesting and best still you can pick up, flick through and put down as time allows.<br>Great bookRead full review...

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Vipers Times

Very pleased with my purchase - thank you!

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Great read

Really interesting

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I'm sure this item is of historical significance, but I found it disappointing in respect of my current area of research.

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if interested in ww1 this is a 'must have' for fun!

this is a great book! inspired to buy it after seeing the tv drama 'wipers times'. its fun to read what was written and be able to put it into context. its not the full edition with appedicies but its the full copy of all the newspapers. well worth buying.Read full review...

Wipers Times

The reason I picked up a copy after watching the film was the social side of WW1 history. I'm ex forces myself and know only too well a soldier will poke fun at a particularly stressful situation in order to get by. This book demonstrated it beautifully and it was a small window into the humorous thought processes of soldiers gone by. Its not all poetry and woeful expressions and like those admirable men who served I would have rather died just after a guteral belly laugh than after a sobbing letter from home "my opinion only" thank God somebody wrote the Wipers Times and thank Mary, Jesus and Joseph that somebody preserved them" (although religion is responsible for pretty much most wars, I'll let this one slip) "Lest we forget those gallant Tommies of the Woofers "Worcester and Sherwood Foresters"Read full review...

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