Marine at Gallipoli and on the Western Front, Harry Askin

Marine at Gallipoli and on the Western Front, Harry AskinNew Hardback Harry Askin was 22 when he enlisted at Nottingham in September 1914 and was sent to train with the Royal Marines at Portsmouth. He set sail with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in late February 1915. On 25 April he was towed ashore to Gallipoli. So began a nine month ordeal of constant fighting and shelling on that bare and desperate Peninsula. In this diary he captures the atmosphere of danger and death, blazing heat in summer and

of claim and counter-claim

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less than 34 hours after his departure from New York

on a calm summer's morning and in a familiar anchorage

Aeroplanes droning invisible

This was not so

From the deprivations of rationing and the bombing of the Blitz

From the commons of London to the Lake District

It was inevitable that the Allies would invade France in the summer of 1944: the Nazis just had to figure out where and when

renewal and repair

This isn't science fiction

The outcome was not exactly as he had planned