Now It Can Be Told
Автор:
Philip GibbsЖанр:
Дата добавления:
2025-10-07Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
184
Description
At the outbreak of war in 1914, newspaper reporter Philip Gibbs left for Belgium to report on the German invasion and the resulting mass Allied retreat. In the midst of these catastrophes in the early days of fighting, British high command was loathe to allow any reporting outside army communiqués, and only after a public outcry for information was Gibbs made into one of only five official British war correspondents. He would accompany the British army through all their fighting on the Western Front, including the Battles of Ypres, the Somme, and Flanders, up till their eventual victory in 1918.
As a war correspondent, Gibbs had the fairly unique position of being able to...
