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Moorehead, Alan

Gallipoli

Ballantine, 1983

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Year of publication
1983
ISBN
0345307720
Place of printing
New York
Author
Moorehead, Alan
Publishers
Ballantine
Edition
Reprint
Keyword
WORLD WAR I GALLIPOLI TURKEY
Binding description
S
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
Fine
Binding
Softcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
No

Description

"When Turkey unexpectedly sided with Germany in World War I, Winston Churchill, as Sea Lord for the British, conceived a plan: smash through the Dardanelles, reopen the Straits to Russia, and immobilize the Turks. On the night of March 18, 1915, this plan nearly succeeded -- the Turks were virtually beaten. But poor communication left the Allies in the dark, allowing the Turks to prevail and the Allies to suffer a crushing quarter-million casualties.A vivid chronicle of adventure, suspense, agony, and heroism, Gallipoli brings fully to life the tragic waste in human life, the physical horror, and the sheer heartbreaking folly of fighting for impossible objectives with inadequate means on unknown, unmapped terrain.343p.map.