No Man's Land

by Sapper

20 chapters7h 44mEnglish1917

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This book was written by a British Army officer and decorated Western Front veteran. Soldiers could not publish books using their real names, so newspaper magnate Lord Northcliffe christened McNeile, Sapper, to reflect his Royal Engineers background, under which pseudonym the book was published. McNeile also wrote the Bulldog Drummond spy/wartime adventures. No Man's Land is made up of five parts: The Way To The Land is a preface to the rest of the book in which fictional character Clive Draycott travels in Europe prior to the outbreak of the war. Part II The Land consists of 8 stories detailing the day to day lives of soldiers in the trenches. Part III Seed Time is about a salesman turned soldier, and Part IV Harvest in which Sapper puts forward the theory that war is awful, and many suffer but those who survive it can be changed for the better. Themes of class, gender, history abound. - Summary by afinevoice with grateful thanks to M Porcius

1Preface

105

2Part I. The Way To The Land - Sections i - xii

3144

3Part II. The Land - Section i. A Day Of Peace

3124

4Part II. The Land - Section ii. Over The Top

1625

5Part II. The Land - Section iii. The Man-Trap

2417

6Part II. The Land - Section iv. A Point Of Detail

2244

7Part II. The Land - Section v. My Lady Of The Jasmine

2096

8Part II. The Land - Section vi. Morphia

1647

9Part II. The Land - vii. Bendigo Jones - His Tree

1762

10Part II. The Land - viii. The Song Of The Bayonet

2241

11Part III. Seed Time - i. The Seed

1038

12Part III. Seed Time - ii. The First Lesson

718

13Part III. Seed Time - iii. An Impersonal Demonstration

425

14Part III. Seed Time - iv. Somewhat More Personal

429

15Part III. Seed Time - v. A Project And Some Side-Issues

803

16Part III. Seed Time - vi. The Second Lesson, And Some Further Side Issues

1313

17Part III. Seed Time - vii. The Third Lesson And A Digression

952

18Part III. Seed Time - viii. The Third Lesson Is Learned

939

19Part III. Seed Time - ix "And Other Fell On Good Ground"

136

20Part IV. Harvest

738

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