Phrase by 'Philip Gibbs'

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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!

Author: Philip Gibbs - British Journalist
  Us , Chance , Deep , Guns


From 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.

Author: Philip Gibbs - British Journalist
  Fire , Battle , Rose , Smoke


All 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.

Author: Philip Gibbs - British Journalist
  Me , See , Three , Men


When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town Hall square. Dead soldiers lay outside and I glanced at them coldly. We were in search of the living.

Author: Philip Gibbs - British Journalist
  Down , Search , Dead , Soldiers


We 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.

Author: Philip Gibbs - British Journalist
  Lie , World , Peace , Die


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.

Author: Philip Gibbs - British Journalist
  Myself , Morning , City , Paris


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.

Author: Philip Gibbs - British Journalist
  Conflict , War , News , Opinion


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.

Author: Philip Gibbs - British Journalist
  Me , Time , Black , War


It's better to give than to lend and it costs about the same.

Author: Philip Gibbs - British Journalist
  About , Better , Give , Same


It 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.

Author: Philip Gibbs - British Journalist
  See , War , Battle , Victory


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