Review of The Wipers Times (2013) by Stephen R — 09 Feb 2016

People who still care about World War I will never stop looking for one more perspective, one more story or one more description of those terrible days of walking into machine gun fire, being bombed to smithereens or being gassed to death under a blue sky.

It was a time of bayonets and charges. Tens of thousands killed in a day. Hand to hand combat in zero degree temperatures. A whole generation of boys and men gone.

This is a movie presenting a little sense of humor to the madness. It's British humor so it may not appeal to Americans so much but the general effect was an earnest attempt to shed some light on a small corner of the war and pay homage to men who brought a smile where smiles were hard to find and a laugh to men who might have thought it impossible considering the circumstances.

This was a slice of history well done.