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The Wipers Times (Record no. 536889)

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fixed length control field 01519pam a2200169a 44500
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 5016641118870
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number WAR AND
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Andy de Emmony
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Wipers Times
Statement of responsibility, etc Andy de Emmony
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Name of publisher, distributor, etc David Parfitt
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2013
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 90
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 7.96
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note "Just after the First World War Fred Roberts goes for a job as a newspaper journalist and tells the sub-editor how, in the trenches in 1916, he discovered a printing press in working order. Helped by ex-printer Sergeant Harris and with his friend Jack Pearson as his assistant, he sets up the Wipers Times - the name coming from the soldiers' pronunciation of the town Ypres. Despite disapproval from officious Colonel Howfield but with backing from sympathetic General Mitford they produce twenty-three issues of a satirical magazine - its articles represented on screen in black and white - which boosts morale and even gets mentioned in the Tatler. The press is destroyed by a German shell but another is found and the paper's title changed to fit in with wherever the regiment is deployed. Pearson and Roberts are both awarded gallantry medals but when Roberts is only offered the job of crossword compiler by the sub-editor he moves to Canada as a prospector while Pearson marries and opens a hotel in Argentina. Both survived into the 1960s."<br/>
521 ## - TARGET AUDIENCE NOTE
Target audience note Certification PG
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element War
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09/02/2016 KV089510 22/08/2024   On shelf Colombo   WAR AND 09/02/2016   Dewey Decimal Classification DVD 10/08/2024 12 Colombo 3
09/02/2016 KV089510 09/11/2017   On shelf Kandy   WAR AND 09/02/2016   Dewey Decimal Classification DVD 02/11/2017 4 Kandy