Philip Gibbs Quotes

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.

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• 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.

  

  Philip Gibbs
  • Time
  • War
  • Black