The Menace
In "The Menace", the first volume of his two volume set, Philip Gibbs, called "the prince of the great war correspondents" by contemporaries, takes up his World War I narrative at "Battle of the Tanks" outside Cambrai in the Fall 1917. The story then unfolds through the terrible weeks of the German offensive in 1918, to the great counteroffensive culminating in the Armistice of November 11, 1918.
"The Way to Victory" vividly describes the Cambrai Salient in those November days when Sir Julian Byng, a.k.a "Byng-Byng of Cambrai", marshaled his hundreds of tanks before the Hindenburg line and drove them forward in an irresistible wave deep into the German positions, where their lumbering forms bursting out of the mists of dawn, struck panic into the enemy. It takes us to Marcoing, Masnieres, and Bourlon Wood, foul with poison gas and death, where British and Germans swayed back and forth in village streets splotched with blood, in the bitterest of fighting. And it takes us back to that morning when the Germans, counterattacking, retook part of the Byng's salient,
Then comes the story of those terrible days of March, 1918, when the enemy broke through around St. Quentin, swept forward over the old Somme battlefields and almost to Amiens - days when Gibbs' pen drew pictures of British valor that remain that will long remain clean-cut in the memory. They do not say much," he wrote amid the wrack and horror of retreat, "but there is a queer light in their eyes, shining out of faces greyed by sleeplessness, or streaked with blood. And again: The best qualities of [humanity] are seen now, when they are most wanted, and that is the promise which gives good hope that, whatever happens, we shall not fail. And: "to get a salute from one of these private soldiers is an honour, as though a great captain saluted one, and to talk with any officer who has been through these things fills one with a sense of having been in touch with some famous character of history.
This and much more is in "The Way to Victory." Those who know Philip Gibbs can relive again the months of battle, now seemingly so remote, when his daily dispatches brought the battlefield to breakfast tables thousands of miles away and made us see the misery, mirth and beauty, the foulness, horror and glory of war. And those who do not Philip Gibbs now have the opportunity to make acquaintance, through the pages of his new book, with an admirable writer, a man of unending pluck and constancy, a clean-souled scion of the fighting race.
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"The Way to Victory" vividly describes the Cambrai Salient in those November days when Sir Julian Byng, a.k.a "Byng-Byng of Cambrai", marshaled his hundreds of tanks before the Hindenburg line and drove them forward in an irresistible wave deep into the German positions, where their lumbering forms bursting out of the mists of dawn, struck panic into the enemy. It takes us to Marcoing, Masnieres, and Bourlon Wood, foul with poison gas and death, where British and Germans swayed back and forth in village streets splotched with blood, in the bitterest of fighting. And it takes us back to that morning when the Germans, counterattacking, retook part of the Byng's salient,
Then comes the story of those terrible days of March, 1918, when the enemy broke through around St. Quentin, swept forward over the old Somme battlefields and almost to Amiens - days when Gibbs' pen drew pictures of British valor that remain that will long remain clean-cut in the memory. They do not say much," he wrote amid the wrack and horror of retreat, "but there is a queer light in their eyes, shining out of faces greyed by sleeplessness, or streaked with blood. And again: The best qualities of [humanity] are seen now, when they are most wanted, and that is the promise which gives good hope that, whatever happens, we shall not fail. And: "to get a salute from one of these private soldiers is an honour, as though a great captain saluted one, and to talk with any officer who has been through these things fills one with a sense of having been in touch with some famous character of history.
This and much more is in "The Way to Victory." Those who know Philip Gibbs can relive again the months of battle, now seemingly so remote, when his daily dispatches brought the battlefield to breakfast tables thousands of miles away and made us see the misery, mirth and beauty, the foulness, horror and glory of war. And those who do not Philip Gibbs now have the opportunity to make acquaintance, through the pages of his new book, with an admirable writer, a man of unending pluck and constancy, a clean-souled scion of the fighting race.
The Menace
In "The Menace", the first volume of his two volume set, Philip Gibbs, called "the prince of the great war correspondents" by contemporaries, takes up his World War I narrative at "Battle of the Tanks" outside Cambrai in the Fall 1917. The story then unfolds through the terrible weeks of the German offensive in 1918, to the great counteroffensive culminating in the Armistice of November 11, 1918.
"The Way to Victory" vividly describes the Cambrai Salient in those November days when Sir Julian Byng, a.k.a "Byng-Byng of Cambrai", marshaled his hundreds of tanks before the Hindenburg line and drove them forward in an irresistible wave deep into the German positions, where their lumbering forms bursting out of the mists of dawn, struck panic into the enemy. It takes us to Marcoing, Masnieres, and Bourlon Wood, foul with poison gas and death, where British and Germans swayed back and forth in village streets splotched with blood, in the bitterest of fighting. And it takes us back to that morning when the Germans, counterattacking, retook part of the Byng's salient,
Then comes the story of those terrible days of March, 1918, when the enemy broke through around St. Quentin, swept forward over the old Somme battlefields and almost to Amiens - days when Gibbs' pen drew pictures of British valor that remain that will long remain clean-cut in the memory. They do not say much," he wrote amid the wrack and horror of retreat, "but there is a queer light in their eyes, shining out of faces greyed by sleeplessness, or streaked with blood. And again: The best qualities of [humanity] are seen now, when they are most wanted, and that is the promise which gives good hope that, whatever happens, we shall not fail. And: "to get a salute from one of these private soldiers is an honour, as though a great captain saluted one, and to talk with any officer who has been through these things fills one with a sense of having been in touch with some famous character of history.
This and much more is in "The Way to Victory." Those who know Philip Gibbs can relive again the months of battle, now seemingly so remote, when his daily dispatches brought the battlefield to breakfast tables thousands of miles away and made us see the misery, mirth and beauty, the foulness, horror and glory of war. And those who do not Philip Gibbs now have the opportunity to make acquaintance, through the pages of his new book, with an admirable writer, a man of unending pluck and constancy, a clean-souled scion of the fighting race.
"The Way to Victory" vividly describes the Cambrai Salient in those November days when Sir Julian Byng, a.k.a "Byng-Byng of Cambrai", marshaled his hundreds of tanks before the Hindenburg line and drove them forward in an irresistible wave deep into the German positions, where their lumbering forms bursting out of the mists of dawn, struck panic into the enemy. It takes us to Marcoing, Masnieres, and Bourlon Wood, foul with poison gas and death, where British and Germans swayed back and forth in village streets splotched with blood, in the bitterest of fighting. And it takes us back to that morning when the Germans, counterattacking, retook part of the Byng's salient,
Then comes the story of those terrible days of March, 1918, when the enemy broke through around St. Quentin, swept forward over the old Somme battlefields and almost to Amiens - days when Gibbs' pen drew pictures of British valor that remain that will long remain clean-cut in the memory. They do not say much," he wrote amid the wrack and horror of retreat, "but there is a queer light in their eyes, shining out of faces greyed by sleeplessness, or streaked with blood. And again: The best qualities of [humanity] are seen now, when they are most wanted, and that is the promise which gives good hope that, whatever happens, we shall not fail. And: "to get a salute from one of these private soldiers is an honour, as though a great captain saluted one, and to talk with any officer who has been through these things fills one with a sense of having been in touch with some famous character of history.
This and much more is in "The Way to Victory." Those who know Philip Gibbs can relive again the months of battle, now seemingly so remote, when his daily dispatches brought the battlefield to breakfast tables thousands of miles away and made us see the misery, mirth and beauty, the foulness, horror and glory of war. And those who do not Philip Gibbs now have the opportunity to make acquaintance, through the pages of his new book, with an admirable writer, a man of unending pluck and constancy, a clean-souled scion of the fighting race.
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| BN ID: | 2940016586236 |
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| Publisher: | Capitol Hill Press |
| Publication date: | 05/14/2013 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
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