Skip to main content

Gallipoli

By: Perennial Classics

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Historical Reference Books (Perennial Classics)

Last Stocked on 2/11/2024

Product Info

Title
Gallipoli
Publisher
Category
Author
Alan Moorehead
Publish Year
2002
Pages
380
Dimensions
5.25x8x1"
NKG Part #
2147933846
Type
Softcover

Description

The classic account of one of the most tragic battles in modern history - when Turkey unexpectedly sided with Germany in Word War I, Winston Churchill, as Sea Lord for the British, conceived a plan: smash through the Dardanelles, reopen the Straits to Russia, and immobilize the Turks.

On the night of March 18, 1915, this plan nearly succeeded - the Turks were virtually beaten. But poor communication left the Allies in the dark, allowing the Turks to prevail and the Allies to suffer a crushing quarter-million casualties.

A vivid chronicle of adventure, suspense, agony, and heroism, Gallipoli brings fully to life the tragic waste in human life, the physical horror, and the sheer heartbreaking folly of fighting for impossible objectives with inadequate means on unknown, unmapped terrain.