No Man's Land

Author(s): Sapper

Number of Chapters: 20

Length: 07 hours and 44 minutes

Language: English

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

Preface (Adrian Wilson)

Part I. The Way To The Land - Sections i - xii (Adrian Wilson)

Part II. The Land - Section i. A Day Of Peace (Adrian Wilson)

Part II. The Land - Section ii. Over The Top (Adrian Wilson)

Part II. The Land - Section iii. The Man-Trap (Adrian Wilson)

Part II. The Land - Section iv. A Point Of Detail (Adrian Wilson)

Part II. The Land - Section v. My Lady Of The Jasmine (Adrian Wilson)

Part II. The Land - Section vi. Morphia (Adrian Wilson)

Part II. The Land - vii. Bendigo Jones - His Tree (Adrian Wilson)

Part II. The Land - viii. The Song Of The Bayonet (Adrian Wilson)

Part III. Seed Time - i. The Seed (Adrian Wilson)

Part III. Seed Time - ii. The First Lesson (Adrian Wilson)

Part III. Seed Time - iii. An Impersonal Demonstration (Adrian Wilson)

Part III. Seed Time - iv. Somewhat More Personal (Adrian Wilson)

Part III. Seed Time - v. A Project And Some Side-Issues (Adrian Wilson)

Part III. Seed Time - vi. The Second Lesson, And Some Further Side Issues (Adrian Wilson)

Part III. Seed Time - vii. The Third Lesson And A Digression (Adrian Wilson)

Part III. Seed Time - viii. The Third Lesson Is Learned (Adrian Wilson)

Part III. Seed Time - ix "And Other Fell On Good Ground" (Adrian Wilson)

Part IV. Harvest (Adrian Wilson)

The audiobook No Man's Land falls under the genres of War & Military Fiction. It is written by Sapper.

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