‘The Wipers Times’ — Soldiers’ own newspaper let Tommies laugh at trench warfare

“Far from being an official mouthpiece of the British war effort, The Wipers Times mainly featured poems, jokes and short articles satirizing the futility of trench life.” IT’S BEEN SAID that war consists of long periods boredom…

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