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The Romance of George Villiers First Duke of Buckingham, and Some Men and Women, of the Stuart Court. E-book. Formato PDF Philip Gibbs - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
Suppose that among those who daily pass Villiers Street and Buckingham Street in the Strand, or stop to glance at the grey stone-work in the Embankment Gardens, which.
The Battles of the Somme. E-book. Formato PDF Philip Gibbs - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
In this book I have put together the articles which I have written day by day for more than three months, since that first day of July, 1916, when hundreds of thousands of British troops rose out of the ditches held against the enemy for nearly two years of trench warfare, advanced over open country upon the most formidable system of defences ever organised by great armies, and began a series of battles as fierce and bloody as anything the old earth has seen on such a stretch of ground since the beginning of human strife.Before July I I had an idea of writing a book about all that I had seen for nearly eighteen months, since I abandoned the hazardous game of a free lance in the war-zones of France and Belgium (to me those were the great and wonderful days) and became officially accredited as a correspondent with the British armies in the field. I had seen a good deal in the trenches and behind the lines - nearly all there was to see - of stationary warfare from Ypres to the Somme, and enough to understand with every nerve in my body not only the abomination of this doom which put fine sensitive men into dirty mudholes and sinister ruins, in exile from the comforts and beauty and decency of life, under the continual menace of death or mutilation, but also the valour of great numbers of simple souls who hated it all and yet endured it with a queer gaiety, and laughed even while they cursed its beastliness, and resigned themselves to its worst miseries like Christian martyrs with a taste for beer and the pictures of the "vie parisienne."
Now It Can Be Told. E-book. Formato PDF Philip Gibbs - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
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 — mot by a' more detailed narra tive 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.