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Gallipoli

Gallipoli

by Peter Hart
Publication Date: 21/03/2011

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This is a gripping, revisionist account of an epic tragedy. 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 Drawing on unpublished personal accounts by individuals at all levels and from all sides - not only from Britain, Australia and New Zealand, but unusually from Turkey and France too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.
ISBN:
9781846681592
9781846681592
Category:
First World War
Publication Date:
21-03-2011
Publisher:
Profile Books Limited
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
240x162x47mm
Weight:
0.88kg
Peter Hart

Peter Hart is the oral historian at the Imperial War Museum and has written several titles on the First World War.

His latest books for Profile are Gallipoli, The Great War and Voices from the Front.

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