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In the hands of the Turks during the Great War
The author of this book, John Still, was an officer in the 6th
Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment and was part of the
imaginative, but ultimately disastrous, amphibious assault on the
Gallipoli peninsula in the Dardanelle's as part of the Middle
Eastern Campaign in 1915 which was intended to initiate the fall of
Germany's ally, the ailing Ottoman Empire. Winston Churchill, then
First Sea Lord, had a penchant for devising unusual military
initiatives and the consequences of this unfortunate brainchild
were fated to chillingly revisit him in the Second World War during
the Anzio landings in Italy. The experiences of the soldiers on the
ground in both episodes also proved remarkably similar. Far from
storming ashore to launch themselves in a rapid advance, they found
themselves virtual prisoners within a confined beachhead where
every attack of the invaders was poorly coordinated and doomed to
failure from the outset. So it was that Still and his Yorkshire men
were doomed to failure as they tried to achieve their objective
both without support and hours after the time originally allotted
to them. The outcome was predictable with appalling loss of life
and capture and incarceration for the few survivors which included
the author of this account. There followed a long journey into
captivity followed by years as prisoners of the Turks. How Still
and his comrades survived an ordeal that cost so many British
soldiers their lives through neglect, poor or non-existent medical
care, over work and starvation makes engrossing reading. This book
was originally entitled A Prisoner in Turkey.
Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each
title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our
hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their
spines and fabric head and tail bands.
This monograph explores the ways in which canonical Francophone
Algerian authors, writing in the late-colonial period (1945-1962),
namely Kateb Yacine, Mohammed Dib, Mouloud Feraoun, Mouloud Mammeri
and Assia Djebar, approached the representation of Algerian women
through literature. The book initially argues that a masculine
domination of public fields of representation in Algeria
contributed to a postcolonial marginalization of women as public
agents. However, it crucially also argues that the canonical
writers of the period, who were mostly male, both textually
acknowledged their inability to articulate the experiences and
subjectivity of the feminine Other and deployed a remarkable
variety of formal and conceptual innovations in producing
evocations of Algerian femininity that subvert the structural
imbalance of masculine symbolic hegemony. Though it does not shy
from investigating those aspects of its corpus that produce
ideologically conditioned masculinist representations, the book
chiefly seeks to articulate a shared reluctance concerning
representativity, a pessimism regarding the revolution's capacity
to deliver change for women, and an omnipresent subversion of
masculine subjectivity in its canonical texts.
This monograph explores the ways in which canonical Francophone
Algerian authors, writing in the late-colonial period (1945-1962),
namely Kateb Yacine, Mohammed Dib, Mouloud Feraoun, Mouloud Mammeri
and Assia Djebar, approached the representation of Algerian women
through literature. The book initially argues that a masculine
domination of public fields of representation in Algeria
contributed to a postcolonial marginalization of women as public
agents. However, it crucially also argues that the canonical
writers of the period, who were mostly male, both textually
acknowledged their inability to articulate the experiences and
subjectivity of the feminine Other and deployed a remarkable
variety of formal and conceptual innovations in producing
evocations of Algerian femininity that subvert the structural
imbalance of masculine symbolic hegemony. Though it does not shy
from investigating those aspects of its corpus that produce
ideologically conditioned masculinist representations, the book
chiefly seeks to articulate a shared reluctance concerning
representativity, a pessimism regarding the revolution's capacity
to deliver change for women, and an omnipresent subversion of
masculine subjectivity in its canonical texts.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
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++++ Gammar Gvrtons Nedle; Issue 2 Of Percy Reprints John Still,
John Bridges, William Stevenson Herbert Francis Brett Brett-Smith
Houghton Mifflin, 1920
This book, from the series Primary Sources: Historical Books of the
World (Asia and Far East Collection), represents an important
historical artifact on Asian history and culture. Its contents come
from the legions of academic literature and research on the subject
produced over the last several hundred years. Covered within is a
discussion drawn from many areas of study and research on the
subject. From analyses of the varied geography that encompasses the
Asian continent to significant time periods spanning centuries, the
book was made in an effort to preserve the work of previous
generations.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
In the hands of the Turks during the Great War
The author of this book, John Still, was an officer in the 6th
Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment and was part of the
imaginative, but ultimately disastrous, amphibious assault on the
Gallipoli peninsula in the Dardanelle's as part of the Middle
Eastern Campaign in 1915 which was intended to initiate the fall of
Germany's ally, the ailing Ottoman Empire. Winston Churchill, then
First Sea Lord, had a penchant for devising unusual military
initiatives and the consequences of this unfortunate brainchild
were fated to chillingly revisit him in the Second World War during
the Anzio landings in Italy. The experiences of the soldiers on the
ground in both episodes also proved remarkably similar. Far from
storming ashore to launch themselves in a rapid advance, they found
themselves virtual prisoners within a confined beachhead where
every attack of the invaders was poorly coordinated and doomed to
failure from the outset. So it was that Still and his Yorkshire men
were doomed to failure as they tried to achieve their objective
both without support and hours after the time originally allotted
to them. The outcome was predictable with appalling loss of life
and capture and incarceration for the few survivors which included
the author of this account. There followed a long journey into
captivity followed by years as prisoners of the Turks. How Still
and his comrades survived an ordeal that cost so many British
soldiers their lives through neglect, poor or non-existent medical
care, over work and starvation makes engrossing reading. This book
was originally entitled A Prisoner in Turkey.
Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each
title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our
hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their
spines and fabric head and tail bands.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
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