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Gallipoli (Paperback, Main)
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Gallipoli (Paperback, Main)
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'The scene was tragically macabre: the image of desolation, the
flames spared nothing. As for our young men, a few minutes ago, so
alert, so self-confident, all now lying dead on the bare deck,
blackened burned skeletons, twisted in all directions, no trace of
any clothing, the fire having devoured all.' Vice Admiral P. E.
Guéprette recalls the damage to the French ship Suffen during a
naval battle in 1915. One of the most famous battles in history,
Gallipoli forced Churchill from office, established Turkey's iconic
founder Mustafa Kemal ('Ataturk') and marked Australia's emergence
as a nation in its own right. It had begun as a bold move led by
the British to ultimately capture Constantinople, but this
definitive new history explains that from the initial landings -
which ended with so much blood in the sea it could be seen from
aircraft overhead - to the desperate attacks of early summer and
the battle of attrition that followed, it was a lunacy that was
never going to succeed. Drawing on unpublished personal accounts by
individuals at all levels and from all sides - not only from
Britain, Australia and New Zealand, but unusually from Turkey and
France too - Peter Hart combines his trademark eye for vivid
personal stories with a strong narrative to bring a modern view of
this military disaster to a popular audience.
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