Quotes By Philip Gibbs
A 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.Share this quote on facebook:
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Add this quote on your site! Click here.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.
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Add this quote on your site! Click here.I 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.
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Add this quote on your site! Click here.In 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!
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Add this quote on your site! Click here.It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues.
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Add this quote on your site! Click here.The cheery optimism of our generals always thought we were going forward, and therefore it was not worth while making ourselves comfortable and safe.
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