Gallipoli

GallipoliDescription by Peter Hart Paperback One of the most famous battles in history, the WWI Gallipoli campaign began as a bold move by the British to capture Constantinople, but this definitive new history explains that from the initial landings which ended with so much blood in the sea it could be seen from airplanes overhead to the desperate attacks of early summer and the battle of attrition that followed, it was a tragic folly destined to fail from the

Like a string of firecrackers

they were prepared to risk it all to fight a distant war in France

The Australians would attack at the Dardanelles

Beginning his wartime career on the Western Front in August 1916

” McCrae himself died from disease in 1918

John Reed became a close friend of Lenin and was an eyewitness to the 1917 revolution in Russia

the young nurse was caught by the Germans placing dynamite in a disused sewer tunnel underneath an ammunition dump

Hart now returns to these interviews in Voices from the Front

leading the way ahead of America's declaration that it would join the war

in over 270 color images

These stories are able to illustrate the impact of the Great War on British society and culture and the many modes in which short fiction contributed to the war's literature

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