Now It Can Be Told

by Philip Gibbs Narrated by LibriVox Community

Overview

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

The purpose of this book is to get deeper into the truth of this war andof all war--not by a more detailed narrative of events, but rather asthe truth was revealed to the minds of men, in many aspects, outof their experience; and by a plain statement of realities, howeverpainful, to add something to the world's knowledge out of which men ofgood-will may try to shape some new system of relationship between onepeople and another, some new code of international morality, preventingor at least postponing another massacre of youth like that five years'sacrifice of boys of which I was a witness.
- Summary by Philip Gibbs, from the Preface

Editorial Reviews

APRIL 2019 - AudioFile

Matthew Lloyd Davies gives a splendid reading of Sir Philip Gibbs’s classic narrative of WWI. Gibbs, a journalist and prolific writer with close to 80 titles, was one of five official reporters for the British Army during the war. Most of his published work concerned the Great War, and at least nine have been adapted for the screen. This particular work, which focuses on the realities of war in the UK, was published in 1920 and, while it praises the common “Tommy,” is unflattering of British Commander-in-Chief Sir Douglas Haig and his staff. Davies’s somewhat understated delivery is clear and expressive—he even affects a German accent for quotes attributed to Kaiser Wilhelm’s soldiers. Reading the text in phrases, he gives the production a Hemingwayesque quality. M.T.F. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine

APRIL 2019 - AudioFile

Matthew Lloyd Davies gives a splendid reading of Sir Philip Gibbs’s classic narrative of WWI. Gibbs, a journalist and prolific writer with close to 80 titles, was one of five official reporters for the British Army during the war. Most of his published work concerned the Great War, and at least nine have been adapted for the screen. This particular work, which focuses on the realities of war in the UK, was published in 1920 and, while it praises the common “Tommy,” is unflattering of British Commander-in-Chief Sir Douglas Haig and his staff. Davies’s somewhat understated delivery is clear and expressive—he even affects a German accent for quotes attributed to Kaiser Wilhelm’s soldiers. Reading the text in phrases, he gives the production a Hemingwayesque quality. M.T.F. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169479638
Publisher:	LibriVox
Publication date:	08/25/2014

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