The Other Side of No Man’s Land. Arthur Wheen World War I Hero, Scholar and Pacifist

The Other Side of No Man’s Land. Arthur Wheen World War I Hero, Scholar and Pacifist
The Other Side of No Man’s Land. Arthur Wheen World War I Hero, Scholar and Pacifist

John Ramsland

Brolga Publishing, Melbourne, 2015

ISBN:  9 781922 175694  (paperback)

This is the story of Wheen’s extraordinary exploits as a heroic signaller in WWI, his studies as a Rhodes scholar post-war, his literary works including his minor war classic Two Masters and his magnificent translation of Erich Maria Remarque’s Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front).