Gallipoli / Alan Moorehead.

By:

Moorehead, Alan, 1910-1983 [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York Harper & Brothers Publishers 1956Description: 384 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cmISBN:

9780060130251
0060130253

Subject(s):

Additional physical formats: Online version:: Gallipoli.DDC classification:

940.4259

LOC classification:

D568.3 .M59 1956

Other classification:

NP 4450

Summary: When Turkey unexpectedly sided with Germany in World War I, Winston Churchill 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 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Non-Fiction	Waimate Event Centre - Long term storage	Non Fiction	940.4259 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not For Loan	Not for loan		A00147122

Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-372) and index.

When Turkey unexpectedly sided with Germany in World War I, Winston Churchill 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 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.

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