{"product_id":"2940013342576","title":"NOW IT CAN BE TOLD","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        PREFACE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       Part One  OBSERVERS AND COMMANDERS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       Part Two  THE SCHOOL OF COURAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Part Three  THE NATURE OF A BATTLE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      Part Four  A WINTER OF DISCONTENT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      Part Five  THE HEART OF A CITY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       Part Six  PSYCHOLOGY ON THE SOMME\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Part Seven  THE FIELDS OF ARMAGEDDON\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Part Eight  FOR WHAT MEN DIED\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePREFACE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this book I have written about some aspects of the war which, I\u003cbr\u003ebelieve, the world must know and remember, not only as a memorial of\u003cbr\u003emen's courage in tragic years, but as a warning of what will happen\u003cbr\u003eagain--surely--if a heritage of evil and of folly is not cut out of the\u003cbr\u003ehearts of peoples. Here it is the reality of modern warfare not only as\u003cbr\u003eit appears to British soldiers, of whom I can tell, but to soldiers on\u003cbr\u003eall the fronts where conditions were the same.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat I have written here does not cancel, nor alter, nor deny anything\u003cbr\u003ein my daily narratives of events on the western front as they are now\u003cbr\u003epublished in book form. They stand, I may claim sincerely and humbly,\u003cbr\u003eas a truthful, accurate, and tragic record of the battles in France and\u003cbr\u003eBelgium during the years of war, broadly pictured out as far as I could\u003cbr\u003esee and know. My duty, then, was that of a chronicler, not arguing why\u003cbr\u003ethings should have happened so nor giving reasons why they should not\u003cbr\u003ehappen so, but describing faithfully many of the things I saw, and\u003cbr\u003enarrating the facts as I found them, as far as the censorship would\u003cbr\u003eallow. After early, hostile days it allowed nearly all but criticism,\u003cbr\u003eprotest, and of the figures of loss.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe purpose of this book is to get deeper into the truth of this war and\u003cbr\u003eof all war--not by a more detailed narrative of events, but rather as\u003cbr\u003ethe truth was revealed to the minds of men, in many aspects, out\u003cbr\u003eof their experience; and by a plain statement of realities, however\u003cbr\u003epainful, to add something to the world's knowledge out of which men of\u003cbr\u003egood-will may try to shape some new system of relationship between one\u003cbr\u003epeople and another, some new code of international morality, preventing\u003cbr\u003eor at least postponing another massacre of youth like that five years'\u003cbr\u003esacrifice of boys of which I was a witness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART ONE. OBSERVERS AND COMMANDERS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Germany threw down her challenge to Russia and France, and England\u003cbr\u003eknew that her Imperial power would be one of the prizes of German\u003cbr\u003evictory (the common people did not think this, at first, but saw only\u003cbr\u003ethe outrage to Belgium, a brutal attack on civilization, and a glorious\u003cbr\u003eadventure), some newspaper correspondents were sent out from London to\u003cbr\u003ereport the proceedings, and I was one of them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe went in civilian clothes without military passports--the War Office\u003cbr\u003ewas not giving any--with bags of money which might be necessary for the\u003cbr\u003ehire of motor-cars, hotel life, and the bribery of doorkeepers in the\u003cbr\u003eantechambers of war, as some of us had gone to the Balkan War, and\u003cbr\u003eothers. The Old Guard of war correspondents besieged the War Office\u003cbr\u003efor official recognition and were insulted day after day by junior\u003cbr\u003estaff-officers who knew that \"K\" hated these men and thought the press\u003cbr\u003eought to be throttled in time of war; or they were beguiled into false\u003cbr\u003ehopes by officials who hoped to go in charge of them and were told to\u003cbr\u003ebuy horses and sleeping-bags and be ready to start at a moment's notice\u003cbr\u003efor the front.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe moment's notice was postponed for months....\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe younger ones did not wait for it. They took their chance of \"seeing\u003cbr\u003esomething,\" without authority, and made wild, desperate efforts to break\u003cbr\u003ethrough the barrier that had been put up against them by French and\u003cbr\u003eBritish staffs in the zone of war. Many of them were arrested, put\u003cbr\u003einto prison, let out, caught again in forbidden places, rearrested, and\u003cbr\u003eexpelled from France. That was after fantastic adventures in which they\u003cbr\u003esaw what war meant in civilized countries where vast populations were\u003cbr\u003emade fugitives of fear, where millions of women and children and old\u003cbr\u003epeople became wanderers along the roads in a tide of human misery, with\u003cbr\u003ethe red flame of war behind them and following them, and where the first\u003cbr\u003ebattalions of youth, so gay in their approach to war, so confident of\u003cbr\u003evictory, so careless of the dangers (which they did not know), came back\u003cbr\u003emaimed and mangled and blinded and wrecked, in the backwash of retreat,\u003cbr\u003ewhich presently became a spate through Belgium and the north of France,\u003cbr\u003eswamping over many cities and thousands of villages and many fields.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47157413642480,"sku":"2940013342576","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013342576_p0.jpg?v=1763580019","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013342576","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}