Reddit reviews Now It Can Be Told

I am currently reading Now It Can Be Told, by Philip Gibbs, a war correspondent during the war. In this, he tells tales that he couldn't get past the censors during the war. Tales of heroism, cowardice, futility, injuries, death, and the daily life of the men, women, and children of the war zone.

Now it Can be Told by Philip Gibbs. He was a reporter on the Great War and published in 1920. It's a visceral look at the Western Front and his first-hand account on the British Expeditionary Force and their travails. It is a raw take by an eyewitness to the events on all the carnage of trench warfare that he was not allowed to report on. It's heartbreaking, captivating, a tearjerker, and the best WWI book out there.

Best of all, the digital format is free on Amazon.

The back cover: "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."