Philip Gibbs's Profile
Brief about Philip Gibbs: By info that we know Philip Gibbs was born at 1970-01-01. And also Philip Gibbs is British Journalist.
Some Philip Gibbs's quotes. Goto "Philip Gibbs's quotation" section for more.During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign Office regarding news from the Front.
Tags: Between, Opinion, WarWe who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing of it, but lie rotting in the earth - dead.
Tags: Die, Lie, PeaceBut the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.
Tags: Done, Fighting, IndividualA friend in the War Office warned me that I was in Kitchener's black books, and that orders had been given for my arrest next time I appeared in France.
Tags: Friend, Time, WarAll was well, until I reached the port of Havre. Three officers with the rank of lieutenant, whom afterwards I knew to be Scotland Yard men, came aboard and demanded to see my papers which they took away from me.
Tags: Away, Men, UntilBut do you know, I shall not be sorry to die. I shall be glad, Monsieur. And why glad, you ask? Because I love France and hate the Germans who have put this war on us.
Tags: Hate, Love, WarFrom each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as German shells burst with thudding shocks of sound. This was the front line of battle.
Tags: Battle, Fire, RoseI am going to fight - I, a socialist and Syndicalist - so that we shall make an end to war, so that the little ones of France will sleep in peace, and the women go without fear.
Tags: Peace, War, WomenIn front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry!
Tags: Chance, Deep, LineIt was announced as a French victory by the French Minister of War. I did not see any sign of victory but only the retreat of the French forces engaged in the battle.
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