Now It Can Be Told

by Philip Gibbs

Overview

This book goes deeper into some aspects of the First World War, which, the author believes, 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 if a heritage of evil and of folly is not cut out of the hearts of people. It presents the reality of modern warfare not only as it appears to British soldiers, but to soldiers on all the fronts where conditions were the same. Presenting the tragic record of the battles, it reveals the truth of the war as revealed in the minds of men out of their experience. It argues that some new system of relationship between one people to another and some new code of international morality must be explored so that another massacre of youth must be prevented..

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789364281652
Publisher:	Double 9 Books
Publication date:	08/01/2024
Pages:	486
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.08(d)

About the Author

Matthew Lloyd Davies is a veteran actor, director, and Audie Award-winning audiobook narrator. Highlights of his acting career include regular appearances with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal National Theatre in the West End, on international tours, and in award-winning television shows and films. He has experience in radio, a master's degree in directing, and extensive experience in presenting at corporate events.

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

Editorial Reviews

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

APRIL 2019 - AudioFile