No Man's Land (Illustrated) (The Works of H. C. McNeile. Sapper Book 17), by H. C. McNeile, Herman Cyril McNeile, Sapper
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• This e-book publication is unique which include Illustrations. • This edition has been corrected for spelling and grammatical errors. The Battle of Messines (7–14 June 1917) was an offensive conducted by the British Second Army, under the command of General Sir Herbert Plumer, on the Western Front near the village of Messines in Belgian West Flanders during the First World War. The Nivelle offensive in April and May had failed to achieve its more ambitious aims, led to the demoralisation of French troops and the dislocation of the Anglo-French strategy for 1917. The offensive at Messines forced the Germans to move reserves to Flanders from the Arras and Aisne fronts, which relieved pressure on the French. The tactical objective of the attack at Messines was to capture the German defences on the ridge, which ran from Ploegsteert (Plugstreet) Wood in the south, through Messines and Wytschaete to Mt. Sorrel, to deprive the German 4th Army of the high ground south of Ypres. The ridge commanded the British defences and back areas further north, from which the British intended to conduct the “Northern Operation”, to advance to Passchendaele Ridge, then capture the Belgian coast up to the Dutch frontier. Herman Cyril McNeile, MC (28 September 1888 – 14 August 1937), commonly known as Cyril McNeile and publishing under the name H. C. McNeile or the pseudonym Sapper, was a British soldier and author. Drawing on his experiences in the trenches during the First World War, he started writing short stories and getting them published in the Daily Mail. As serving officers in the British Army were not permitted to publish under their own names, he was given the pen name “Sapper” by Lord Northcliffe, the owner of the Daily Mail; the nickname was based on that of his corps, the Royal Engineers. After the war McNeile left the army and continued writing, although he changed from war stories to thrillers. In 1920 he published Bulldog Drummond, whose eponymous hero became his best-known creation. The character was based on McNeile himself, on his friend Gerard Fairlie and on English gentlemen generally. McNeile wrote ten Bulldog Drummond novels, as well as three plays and a screenplay. McNeile interspersed his Drummond work with other novels and story collections that included two characters who appeared as protagonists in their own works, Jim Maitland and Ronald Standish. He was one of the most successful British popular authors of the inter-war period before his death in 1937 from throat cancer, which has been attributed to damage sustained from a gas attack in the war. McNeile’s stories are either directly about the war, or contain people whose lives have been shaped by it. His thrillers are a continuation of his war stories, with upper class Englishmen defending England from foreigners plotting against it. Although he was seen at the time as “simply an upstanding Tory who spoke for many of his countrymen”, after the Second World War his work was criticised as having fascist overtones, while also displaying the xenophobia and anti-semitism apparent in some other writers of the period. McNeile was born in Bodmin, Cornwall. He was the son of Malcolm McNeile, a captain in the Royal Navy who at the time was governor of the naval prison at Bodmin, and Christiana Mary (née Sloggett). The McNeile family had ancestral roots from both Belfast and Scotland, and counted a general in the British Indian Army among their members. McNeile did not like either of his given names but preferred to be called Cyril, although he was always known by his friends as Mac.
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About the Author H. C. McNeile (1888 1937) was an English author best known for his series of adventure novels featuring Bulldog Drummond. McNeile based the character on his own experiences fighting in the trenches of World War I.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Reminiscent of MASH, set in WWI By C. Rouse I actually started reading this book, not realizing that it was a collection of stories. I figured it out though.I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It is a collection of stories of the British experience of WW I, from the beginning to near the end. The stories center on the lives of individual soldiers, both officers and enlisted, in the trenches of France and does a good job of conveying the fears, conditions, deaths, and everyday life of the soldiers facing the horrors of the first modern war, and covers a lot of aspects and details now virtually forgotten.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Great WW 1 stories about the front line soldier By Amazon Customer more focus on the individuals than overall strategy. what the things are like for the soldiers in the trenches. About how terrifying they could be and how long stretches of boredom punctuated by moments of terror could break any man after a while
3 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Too 1917-styled and too brittish for most. By Evan E. Groff WW-I trench story from the Brittish experience. A little meandering in direction and done in a high-brow brittish in writing style and tone, but humorous in "Mark Twain moments" of the insanity of characters. There are better war tales from this era, including Eddie Rickenbacker's book.
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