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Gallipoli Paperback - 2002
by Alan Moorehead
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
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Details
- Title Gallipoli
- Author Alan Moorehead
- Series Perennial Classics
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2002
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0060937084I3N00
- ISBN 9780060937089 / 0060937084
- Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
- Dimensions 8.1 x 5.28 x 1.03 in (20.57 x 13.41 x 2.62 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Chronological Period: 1900-1919
- Cultural Region: British
- Cultural Region: Turkey
- Library of Congress subjects World War, 1914-1918 - Campaigns - Turkey -, Gallipoli Peninsula (Turkey) - History,
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002029819
- Dewey Decimal Code 940.425
From the rear cover
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.