By 1920, the postwar period after World War I was well under way. The Armistice and the Treaty of Versailles had been signed. Throughout a much-changed world, people looked to the future with a mixture of hope and dread.
It was also a time of serious reflection about the physical and emotional destruction of the European war that had lasted for more than four years.
For noted British war correspondent Philip Gibbs (1877-1962), that reflection took the form of a 558-page book titled Now It Can Be Told.
