European Journey

by Philip Gibbs

Very rare vintage book.

About the author

Sir Philip Armand Hamilton Gibbs was an English journalist and novelist who served as one of five official British reporters during the First World War. Two of his siblings were also writers, A. Hamilton Gibbs and Cosmo Hamilton.
The son of a civil servant, Gibbs was born in London and received a home education and determined at an early age to develop a career as a writer. His debut article was published in 1894 in the Daily Chronicle; five years later he published the first of many books, Founders of the Empire.
He started work at the publishing house at Cassell; then editor of Tillotson's literary syndicate; was literary editor for Daily Mail in 1902; moved to Daily Express, and then to Daily Chronicle in 1908; also worked with Daily Graphic; war correspondent during 1914-18 war; KBE, 1920; chevalier of the Legion of Honour; toured United States lecturing in 1919; resigned from Daily Chronicle in 1920.

Reviews

[George · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wandering through Europe in 1934, the reporting of Phillip Gibbs, clearly sees and uncovers the "slow motion train wreck" as Europe moves toward WWII - this is discussed openly by the average man and woman with whom Gibbs talks. Those interviewed are prescient in predicting the horrors to come, horrors that no one wants, but that all feel can't be stopped. This book is an absolute must for any lover of history, or anyone who wants to understand how these things can happen. This is a book about history before history happened!