"He has given us a very complete picture of modern war as it is seen by the infantryman, a really wonderful little word-picture of what modern war is like at its worst. We found this little book full of courage and truth and wisdom, and it should be widely read."—Pall Mall Gazette.
"Captain Nobbs was five weeks in the firing-line on the Somme in the autumn of 1916. Four weeks mourned as dead.... His experiences, therefore, are worth telling, and they are told well.... The true poignancy of his experiences is realised in the first chapters, which narrate how the wound, which was to change his life, came to him."—The Times.
"Captain Nobbs has written a remarkable book of his experiences. The book of a brave, calm soul.... It is an intensely moving narrative."—Sheffield Telegraph.
"In this remarkable volume the writer narrates the part he took in the war from the time when he was ordered to proceed to the Front down to his repatriation from Germany.... He gives a wonderfully vivid and minute description of his sensations at every minute of the action, sparing nothing of the horror, particularly while he lay out in a shell-hole until he was picked up by the Germans. While his narrative is undeniably powerful, it is almost too painful."—The Scotsman.
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN
Philip Gibbs' Great War Books
THE SOUL OF THE WAR
Popular Edition. Cloth, 3s. 6d. net.