NOW IT CAN BE TOLD - A War Observer's Illumination Bomb E-Book

Gibbs Philip

• Herausgeber: Edizioni Savine
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

“ 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.What I have written here does not cancel, nor alter, nor deny anything in my daily narratives of events on the western front as they are now- published in book form. They stand, I may claim sincerely and humbly, as a truthful, accurate, and tragic record of the battles in France and Belgium during the years of war, broadly pictured out as far as I could see and know. My duty, then, was that of a chronicler, not arguing why things should have happened so nor giving reasons why they should not happen so, but describing faithfully many of the things I saw, and narrating the facts as I found them, as far as the censorship would allow. After early, hostile days it allowed nearly all but criticism, protest, and of the figures of loss.The purpose of this book is to get deeper into the truth of this war and of all war—not by a more detailed narrative of events, but rather as the truth was revealed to the minds of men, in many aspects, out of their experience; and by a plain statement of realities, however painful, to add something to the world’s knowledge out of which men of good-will may try to shape some new system of relationship between one people and another, some new code of international morality, preventing or at least postponing another massacre of youth like that five years’ sacrifice of boys of which I was a witness.”  (Sir Philip Gibbs – 1920)

Leseprobe

NOW IT CAN BE TOLD

A War Observer's Illumination Bomb

by Sir Philip Gibbs

RUINS ALONG A FRENCH ROAD — NOW A FAMILIAR SCENE IN FRANCE

New digital edition of:

Now It Can Be Told

by Philip Gibbs

© 1920 by Harper &. Brothers Publishers New York and London

Copyright © 2017 - Edizioni Savine

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web: www.edizionisavine.com

ISBN 978-88-99914-06-6

CONTENTS

NOW IT CAN BE TOLD

PREFACE

Part One - OBSERVERS AND COMMANDERS

Part Two - THE SCHOOL OF COURAGE

EARLY DAYS WITH THE NEW ARMY

Part Three - THE NATURE OF A BATTLE

HOW THE NEW ARMY WENT TO LOOS

Part Four - A WINTER OF DISCONTENT

Part Five - THE HEART OF A CITY

AMIENS IN TIME OF WAR

Part Six - PSYCHOLOGY ON THE SOMME

Part Seven - THE FIELDS OF ARMAGEDDON

Part Eight - FOR WHAT MEN DIED

PREFACE

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.

What I have written here does not cancel, nor alter, nor deny anything in my daily narratives of events on the western front as they are now- published in book form. They stand, I may claim sincerely and humbly, as a truthful, accurate, and tragic record of the battles in France and Belgium during the years of war, broadly pictured out as far as I could see and know. My duty, then, was that of a chronicler, not arguing why things should have happened so nor giving reasons why they should not happen so, but describing faithfully many of the things I saw, and narrating the facts as I found them, as far as the censorship would allow. After early, hostile days it allowed nearly all but criticism, protest, and of the figures of loss.

The purpose of this book is to get deeper into the truth of this war and of all war—not by a more detailed narrative of events, but rather as the truth was revealed to the minds of men, in many aspects, out of their experience; and by a plain statement of realities, however painful, to add something to the world’s knowledge out of which men of good-will may try to shape some new system of relationship between one people and another, some new code of international morality, preventing or at least postponing another massacre of youth like that five years’ sacrifice of boys of which I was a witness.