Gallipoli. Virtually unheard of prior to 1915, the very name of the
Turkish peninsula bordering the Dardanelles - the narrow waterway
linking the Mediterranean with the Black Sea - now conjures up
visions of privation and hardship and death which even surpass the
horrors of the trench warfare on the Western Front. The barren
landscape was the backdrop to a horrific campaign between April
1915 and January 1916 in which upwards of 1000,000 men lost their
lives. For the Allies it was a battle fought in vain for the
invasion forces were withdrawn for no gain, but for the Turkish
army it was a marvellous victory in what they refer to as their
Canakkale War. Steve Newman has visited Gallipoli several times in
his study of the campaign and he spent a strenuous 10 days on the
peninsula in June 1999 to take the comparisons in a temperature of
over 100 degrees. The book provides a link between past and
present; from one century to the next; that the deeds of those
whose bones lie buried "in a foreign field" shall not be forgotten.
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