About this title: In 1915 the Gallipoli campaign was designed to break the deadlock in the muddy trenches of the Western Front by forcing the Dardenelles, capturing Constantinople, knocking Turkey out of the war and bringing supplies and arms to the Russians for their immense German Front. It was a costly failure. Using private papers as well as official records, Alan Moorehead re-creates the drama of Gallipoli with its tragic hesitations and missed opportunities. He describes the heroism of the British and Anzac troops who were hemmed within a few terrible acres of beach and hillside and permanently under ...
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780345307729ISBN:0345307720
Description: Good+ 12mo. {005692} Gallipoli by Alan Moorehead. ISBN 0345307720. Published by Ballantine Books in 1982. MASS MARKET PAPERBACK 12mo History {Book Condition} GOOD+ {Book Condition Details} Cover: minor edge wear, minor creasing on Spine, creasing, minor rubbing, Text: occasional creasing. {Keywords} WORLD WAR 1914 1918 CAMPAIGNS. read more
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780345330888ISBN:0345330889
Description: Good. No Jacket as Issued. Some wear and creasing to the covers. Previous owners name on the inside cover. Spine is creased. Clean text. Classic account of the doomed campaign during World War One. read more
Edition: 1956.
Binding: paperback
Publisher: New York: Ballantine
Description: 314pp. illus. paperback: Good+ [text is age browned; else G+] A typically engaging Alan Moorehead (1910-83) popular history of one of the Allies' worst military disasters in the First World War, the failed invasion of Ottoman Turkey at Gallipoli, where they were foiled by the future leader of independent Turkey, Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk). read more
Description: Good. 0060130253 1956 HARDCOVER NO DJ, HARPER & ROW PUBLISHERS, former library edition with the usual library stamps, markings, cardholder, read more
Description: Good. Book is in good reading condition. Cover has wear at edges and corners, and may have creases. Spine has wear at edges and creases. read more
"Has World War I become the forgotten war? It was the "war to end all wars," but then it became overshadowed by the next world war.
One of the darkest chapters of the war was Gallipoli, an ill-planned, badly executed attempt to break the stalemate by striking into the heart of Germany through Turkey.
The naval bombardment did not go right. The landing forces got trapped on beaches. The Turks turned out to have a lot more fight than the British ever expected. The British assigned Australian and New Zealand forces untenable landing areas while reserving far better ones for themselves. The winters were pestillential and freezing.
In the end, the battle at Gallipoli proved even more of a stalemate than the fronts in Western Europe.
One thing to note, the Turkish proved to be gentlemen soldiers. ANZAC soldiers and Turks developed a great respect for each other."
"If you have any interest in military history, it is an exceptionally good account of one of the more notorious campaigns of WW I. It has a great account of Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty and Kirchner as the overall head of Britan's war effort going back and forth as to whether to ever try getting through the Dardanelles strait and trying to take Constantinople and the courting of the 'Young Turks' (the revolutionaries who overthrew the Sultan) by Germany, as well as a really well-written narrative of the long, totally futile for everyone, months in which tens of thousands of lives were totally wasted for absolutely nothing. Of ocurse, WWI was millions of lives wasted for absolutely nothing. It also makes frequent references to the history to previous battles from the time of ancient Greece, and has accounts of the incredible beauty of the area (when it's not being blown apart by artillery fire)."
"Not as smooth a read as 1776, but much more satisfying. While this book is written in a clinical, "historical record" type of style, it doesn't lose its humanity. The author tells the story of the war by writing about the struggles and conflicts and heartbreaks of the people involved. As a result, I came away with real knowledge of the events of the Gallipoli Campagin of WWI and real empathy for the men on both sides of the razor wire."
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