Gully Ravine : Gallipoli

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chambers, Stephen.

Series:

Battleground Europe

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gallipoli (Italy)--Guidebooks.

Gallipoli (Italy)--Tours.

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

World War, 1914-1918.

Gallipoli (Italy).

Local Subjects:

Gallipoli (Italy)--Guidebooks.

Gallipoli (Italy)--Tours.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (362 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

: Pen and Sword, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book concentrates on Gully Ravine and its immediate area on the western side of the Helles battlefield. Here trench fighting raged throughout the campaign, culminating in the Battle of Gully Ravine between 28 June and 5 July 1915. This attack was a successful piece of planning and execution, enabling the British to capture five lines of Turkish trenches, seriously threatening the Turkish hold on the southern tip of the peninsula. After this attack the region fell into the deadlock of trench warfare, which brought its horrors as well as its monotony. This beautiful and picturesque area of

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction by Series Editor""; ""Author�s Introduction""; ""Gully Ravine""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Advice to Travellers""; ""List of Maps""; ""Chapter 1: The Advance on Krithia""; ""Chapter 2: The Valley of Death � The Battle of the Fourth of June""; ""Chapter 3: The Plan""; ""Chapter 4: The Battle of Gully Ravine, 28 June � 5 July""; ""Chapter 5: The Aftermath""; ""Chapter 6: Trench Warfare at Gully Ravine""; ""Chapter 7: Gully Ravine Today""; ""Chapter 8: Tour 1: Gully Ravine battlefield by car""

""Tour 2: Gully Ravine and Beach""""Tour 3: Gully Ravine and Pink Farm (south)""; ""Tour 4: Gully Ravine and Twelve Tree Copse (middle)""; ""Tour 5: Fusilier Bluff to Y Beach (north)""; ""Tour 6: Gully Ravine � the Big Walk""; ""Appendix 1: Instructions and Orders of 29 Division for 28 June 1915""; ""Appendix 2: Gully Ravine Order of Battle""; ""Appendix 3: Turkish units in action at Gully Ravine""; ""Bibliography and Recommended Further Reading""; ""Index""

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781783400270

1783400277

OCLC:

855504465