No Mans Land

This book is amazing - from horrific description of the western front to a nice crime yarn and some fantastic humour - this must be the only author to make the reader laugh aloud while reading about World War One. This is "Sapper's" fourth collection of such stories. The book is not just a straightforward collection of short stories, there are also atmospheric pieces and pieces of opinion. Some of the stories are typically "Sapper" and largely comic, the colonel falling down a hole, in "The man-trap" for instance. others such as "Morphia" sentimental if effective and rather more than perhaps I expected from "Sapper."