Gallipoli

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Profile Trade
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2011
Edition: First Edition

Description: 534 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: This is a gripping, revisionist account of an epic tragedy. One of the most famous battles in history, Gallipoli forced Churchill from office, established Turkeys iconic founder Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) and marked Australias 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 Drawing on unpublished personal accounts by individuals at all levels and from all sides - not only from Britain, Australia and New Zealand, but unusually from Turkey and France too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