Letters from Gallipoli : New Zealand soldiers write home / edited by Glyn Harper.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harper, Glyn, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, New Zealand.

World War, 1914-1918.

World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Turkey--Gallipoli Peninsula.

Soldiers--New Zealand--Correspondence.

Soldiers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 p.)

Place of Publication:

Auckland, N.Z. : Auckland University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Revealing and often heartbreaking, this collection of letters offers a powerful firsthand account of a pivotal event in New Zealand history: World War I's Gallipoli Campaign in 1915. Grouped in chronological order, the correspondence?gathered from archives, newspapers, and family collections?details the campaign's harrowing conditions and key events, from preparation and landing on the Ottoman peninsula to the December withdrawal. In these epistles, the intense emotions of the men who survived the trenches are made known, whether it be jubilatio

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface: The Collection; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Gallipoli Campaign; One: Waiting to Go; Two: The Landing: 25 April 1915; Three: The Fighting: 26-30 April 1915; Four: The Assault across the Daisy Patch: 8 May 1915; Five: Turkish Counterattacks: May-June 1915; Six: The Burial Truce: 24 May 1915; Seven: Quinn's Post; Eight: Living Conditions: April-August 1915; Nine: The August Offensive: Chunuk Bair and Hill 60; Ten: Living Conditions: September-December 1915; Eleven: The Evacuation: December 1915; Twelve: Last Post; Appendix: The Letter Writers

BibliographyIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z; Copyright

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-323) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-77558-584-0

1-86940-743-1

OCLC:

863822578