"Of course, the story of Gallipoli has been told before, but in this book Peter Fitzsimons, with the vibrancy and expert melding of writing and research that have become his trademarks, not only recreates the disastrous campaign as experienced by those who endured it or perished in the attempt, but takes us further - from the secret deliberations of the British war council, to the Ottoman leadership, to the trenches on both sides of no-man's-land"--Jacket.