Now It Can Be Told: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Now It Can Be Told, credited to Philip Gibbs, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Now It Can Be Told by Philip Gibbs. Read in English by Walt Allan In this book I have written about some aspects of the war which, I believe, the world must know and remember, not only as a memorial of men's courage in tragic years, but as a warning of what will happen again--surely--if a heritage of evil and of folly is not cut out of the hearts of peoples. Here it is the reality of modern warfare not only as it appears to British soldiers, of whom I can tell, but to soldiers on all the fronts where conditions were the same... The purpose of this book is to get deeper into the truth of this war and of all war--not by a more detailed narrative of events, but rather as the truth was revealed to the minds of men, in many aspects, out of their experience; and by a plain statement of realities, however painful, to add something to the world's knowledge out of which men of good-will may try to shape some new system of relationship between one people and another, some new code of international morality, preventing or at least postponing another massacre of youth like that five years' sacrifice of boys of which I was a witness. - Summary by Philip Gibbs, from the Preface

Recording facts

• Recording title: Now It Can Be Told
• Author credits: Philip Gibbs
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 23
• Listed recording duration: 19:00:34

Catalogue topics

• World War I
• journalistic account

Track guide

1. 01 - Part 1: Observers and Commanders, Preface and Chapters 1 to 5 — 37:39
2. 02 - Part 1: Chapters 6 to 14 — 41:22
3. 03 - Part 1: Chapters 15 to 21 — 48:11
4. 04 - Part 2: The School of Courage. Early Days with the New Army. Chapters 1 to 6 — 46:20
5. 05 - Part 2: Chapters 7 to 9 — 47:48
6. 06 - Part 2: Chapters 10 to 15 — 42:58
7. 07 - Part 2: Chapters 16 to 19 — 37:36
8. 08 - Part 3: The Nature of Battle. Chapters 1 to 9 — 59:05
9. 09 - Part 3: Chapters 10 to 14 — 48:44
10. 10 - Part 4: A Winter of Discontent. Chapters 1 to 5 — 48:01
11. 11 - Part 4: Chapters 6 to 13 — 55:09
12. 12 - Part 4: Chapters 14 to 20 — 1:00:57
13. 13 - Part 5: The Heart of a City. Amiens in Time of War. Chapters 1 to 9 — 44:25
14. 14 - Part 5: Chapters 10 to 14 — 38:30
15. 15 - Part 5: Chapters 15 to 18 — 38:15
16. 16 - Part 6: Psychology on the Somme. Chapters 1 to 8 — 49:50
17. 17 - Part 6: Chapters 9 to 13 — 50:55
18. 18 - Part 6: Chapters 14 to 20 — 1:04:13
19. 19 - Part 6: Chapters 21 to 23 — 46:07
20. 20 - Part 7: The Fields of Armageddon. Chapters 1 to 5 — 1:10:42
21. 21 - Part 7: Chapters 6 to 10 — 1:03:42
22. 22 - Part 8: For What Men Died. Chapters 1 to 4 — 45:20
23. 23 - Part 8: Chapters 5 to 9 — 54:45

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