Book Cover of Now It Can Be Told

Now It Can Be Told

by Philip Gibbs

In this book I have written about some aspects of the war which, I believe, the world must know and remember, not only as a memorial of men's courage in tragic years, but as a warning of what will happen again--surely--if a heritage of evil and of folly is not cut out of the hearts of peoples. Here it is the reality of modern warfare not only as it appears to British soldiers, of whom I can tell, but to soldiers on all the fronts where conditions were the same...

Book Details

Language

English

Original Language

English

Published In

1920

Genre/Category

Tags/Keywords

Author

Philip Gibbs image

Philip Gibbs

United Kingdom

Sir Philip Armand Hamilton Gibbs was an English journalist and prolific author of books who served as one of five official British reporters during the First World War. Four of his siblings...

More on Philip Gibbs

Listen/Download Audiobook

Read by:
00:00
Playback Speed 1.0
00:00
  • Select Speed

Related books

The History of the Popes During the Last Four Centuries, Volume 1 Cover image

The History of the Popes During the Last Four Centuries, Volume 1 by Leopold von Ranke

Dive into the corridors of power and the whispers of intrigue with "The History of the Popes During the Last Four Centuries, Volume 1" by Leopold von...

Chancellorsville and Gettysburg Cover image

Chancellorsville and Gettysburg by Abner Doubleday

Abner Doubleday began the Civil War as a Union officer and aimed the first cannon shot in response to the bombardment opened on Ft. Sumter in 1861. Tw...

History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 4 Cover image

History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 4 by Friedrich Schiller

Volume Four covers the battle of Lutzen (November, 1633) to the death of Wallenstein (February, 1634) focusing on the reaction of the Protestant force...

The Cambridge Modern History. Volume 03, The Wars of Religion  Cover image

The Cambridge Modern History. Volume 03, The Wars of Religion by Various

"The present volume, as its title imports, relates a complicated series of conflicts of which the origin or the pretext has for the most part to be so...

My Hunt After 'The Captain' Cover image

My Hunt After 'The Captain' by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Holmes describes his frantic search through Civil War torn landscapes for his wounded son, the future Supreme Court Justice. Originally published in T...

Gallipoli Diary Cover image

Gallipoli Diary by John Graham Gillam

World War I was one of the most savage and brutal wars in human history. There were millions of deaths and the tragedy was compounded by the fact that...

The Green Flag and Other Stories of War and Sport Cover image

The Green Flag and Other Stories of War and Sport by Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle was deeply affected by the many wars fought during his lifetime. As many other writers, he used the material for short stories, a c...

Project Horizon: Establishment of a Lunar Outpost Cover image

Project Horizon: Establishment of a Lunar Outpost by United States Army

It details the United States Army's ambitious plan to establish a military base on the moon during the height of the Cold War. Written by the Army's o...

Three Soldiers  Cover image

Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos

Three Soldiers is a 1921 novel by American writer and critic John Dos Passos. It is one of the American war novels of the First World War, and remains...

Early Kings of Norway  Cover image

Early Kings of Norway by Thomas Carlyle

"The Icelanders, in their long winter, had a great habit of writing; and were, and still are, excellent in penmanship. It is to this fact, that any li...

Reviews for Now It Can Be Told

No reviews posted or approved, yet...