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Gallipoli / Peter Hart.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hart, Peter, 1955-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Turkey--Gallipoli Peninsula.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Australian.
- World War, 1914-1918--Participation, New Zealand.
- World War, 1914-1918--Participation, British.
- Great Britain. Army. Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (561 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- One of the most famous battles in history, the WWI Gallipoli campaign began as a bold move by the British to 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 airplanes overhead--to the desperate attacks of early summer and the battle of attrition that followed, it was a tragic folly destined to fail from the start. Gallipoli forced the young Winston Churchill from office, established Turkey's iconic founder Mustafa Kemal (better known as ""Ataturk""), and marked Australia's emergence
- Contents:
- Dodging the issue
- Navy in action
- Gathering of the forces
- Plans : countdown to disaster
- 25 April : landings at Anzac
- 25 April : landings at Helles
- 25 April : drama at V Beach
- 25 April : Kum Kale and diversions
- Anzac : the holding pen
- Helles : the real fight for Gallipoli
- Helles : writing on the wall
- New beginnings : Hamilton's plans
- August : Helles sacrifice
- August : Anzac, diversions, and breakout
- August : Suvla Bay landings
- 21 August 1915 : a useless gesture
- Should they stay or should they go?
- The beginning of the end
- Last rites at Helles
- Myths and legends
- Appendix A: A Gallipoli tour
- Appendix B: Glossary of military terms.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- "First published in Great Britain in 2011 by Profile Books"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613269720
- 9780199361274
- 0199361274
- 9781846681615
- 1846681618
- 9781847652850
- 1847652859
- 9781283269728
- 1283269724
- 9780199836871
- 0199836876
- OCLC:
- 754582274
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