The Third Round (Esprios Classics)

Herman Cyril McNeile MC (28 September 1888 - 14 August 1937) 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. 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.