An edition of Gallipoli (2011)

Gallipoli

  • 1 Currently reading
  • 1 Have read

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

Check-In

×Close
Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
Today

  • 1 Currently reading
  • 1 Have read

Buy this book

Last edited by MARC Bot
December 22, 2022 | History
An edition of Gallipoli (2011)

Gallipoli

  • 1 Currently reading
  • 1 Have read

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 as a nation in its own right. Drawing on unpublished eyewitness accounts by individuals from all ranks -- not only from Britain, Australia and New Zealand, but from Turkey and France as well -- Peter Hart weaves first-hand stories into a vivid narrative of the battle and its aftermath. Hart, a historian with the Imperial War Museum and a battlefield tour guide at Gallipoli, provides a vivid, boots-on-the-ground account that brilliantly evokes the confusion of war, the horrors of combat, and the grim courage of the soldiers. He provides an astute, unflinching assessment of the leaders as well. He shows that the British invasion was doomed from the start, but he places particular blame on General Sir Ian Hamilton, whose misplaced optimism, over-complicated plans, and unwillingness to recognize the gravity of the situation essentially turned likely failure into complete disaster. Capturing the sheer drama and bravery of the ferocious fighting, the chivalry demonstrated by individuals on both sides amid merciless wholesale slaughter, and the futility of the cause for which ordinary men fought with extraordinary courage and endurance -- Gallipoli is a riveting account of a battle that continues to fascinate us close to a hundred years after the event. - Publisher.

Publish Date
Language
English

Buy this book

Previews available in: English

Edition Availability
Cover of: Gallipoli
Gallipoli
2011, Oxford University Press
Hardcover in English

Add another edition?

Book Details


Table of 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

Edition Notes

Published in
Oxford, New York

Classifications

Library of Congress
D568.3 .H37 2011, D568.3.H37 2011

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
ix, 534 p., [16] p. of plates
Dimensions
24 x x inches

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25090599M
Internet Archive
gallipoli00hart
ISBN 10
0199836868
ISBN 13
9780199836864
LCCN
2011015975
OCLC/WorldCat
709682882

Community Reviews (0)

Feedback?
No community reviews have been submitted for this work.

History

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON / OPDS | Wikipedia citation
December 22, 2022 Edited by MARC Bot import existing book
December 12, 2022 Edited by MARC Bot import existing book
October 13, 2020 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
September 25, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot import existing book
November 4, 2011 Created by 158.158.240.230 Added new book.