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Gallipoli

By: Wordsworth Editions

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Historical Books (Wordsworth Editions)

Last Stocked on 8/19/2016

Product Info

Title
Gallipoli
Category
Author
Alan Moorehead
Publish Year
1998
Pages
320
Dimensions
5.5x8.5x.5"
NKG Part #
2147473911
Type
Softcover

Description

In 1915 the Gallipoli campaign was designed to break the deadlock in the muddy trenches of the Western Front by forcing the Dardenelles, capturing Constantinople, knocking Turkey out of the war and bringing supplies and arms to the Russians for their immense German Front. It was a costly failure. Using private papers as well as official records, Alan Moorehead re-creates the drama of Gallipoli with its tragic hesitations and missed opportunities. He describes the heroism of the British and Anzac troops who were hemmed within a few terrible acres of beach and hillside and permanently under shellfire.