Gallipoli - Softcover

Moorehead, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845132394 ISBN 13: 9781845132392

Publisher: Aurum Press, 2007

Synopsis

More than ninety years on, the Gallipoli campaign of 1915-16 is still famous as perhaps the most disastrous, horrific and pointless campaign of the entire First World War. Masterminded by Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, following Turkey's entry into the war on the German side, its aim was to capture the Gallipoli peninsula in western Turkey, allowing the Allies to take control of the eastern Mediterranean. But the campaign went wrong from the start. Ignorant of the terrain, and hopelessly underestimating the Turkish army, the Allies found themselves entrenched on the hillsides for long agonising months, through the burning summer and bitter winter, in appalling, dysentery-ridden conditions. By the time they withdrew in January 1916, the death toll stood at 21,000 British troops, 11,000 Australian and New Zealand, and 87,000 Turkish. First published in 1956, when it won the first Duff Cooper Prize, Alan Moorehead's book is still the definitive work on the campaign. Vivid, analytical and highly readable, with compelling character sketches of the main players, it brings the complex operation to life, showing how and why it went so wrong.

About this title

Review:

'To visit the battlefield is to make a pilgrimage to one of the most emotive landmarks of one of the most terrible conflicts of history, of which Alan Moorehead remains perhaps the most vivid chronicler.' --

(Sir Max Hastings)

About the Author:

Alan Moorehead was born in Australia and served as a war correspondent in the Second World War. His many acclaimed works of history and military history include The White Nile and African Trilogy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Aurum Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1845132394
• ISBN 13: 9781845132392
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352