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| | THE RIDDLE OF WIPERS. An Appreciation of the Trench Journal - IVELAW-CHAPMAN, JOHN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | An Appreciation of the Trench Journal "The Wipers Times", A Journal of the Trenches; London, Leo Cooper 1997: FIRST EDITION IN DUSTJACKET, large 8vo, hardcover, 166pp, Foreword by John Terrain, introduction, profusely illustrated with b&w photos & illus. |
 | | Yet for all the occasional horror of its content "The Wipers Times" was a gentle, humour-filled and satirical paper which, once its codes are cracked and its riddles solved, tells an interested reader much about the characters and personalities of the men in the British Army of the First World War. |
 | | Interpretation of regular features such as the bogus music-hall advertisements that feature in every issue, columns like "Answers to our Many Correspondents" and "Things We Want to Know" and careful study of some of the remarkable poetry published in the paper explain to readers what it was like to be there. |
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