One of the most famous battles in history, Gallipoli forced Churchill from office, established Turkey's iconic founder Mustafa Kemal ('Ataturk') and marked Australia's emergence as a nation in its own right. It had begun as a bold move led by the British to ultimately 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 aircraft overhead -to the desperate attacks of early summer and the battle of attrition that followed, it was a lunacy that was never going to succeed.
Drawing on unpublished personal accounts by individuals at all levels and from all sides -not only from Britain, Australia and New Zealand, but unusually from Turkey and France too -Peter Hart combines his trademark eye for vivid personal stories with a strong narrative to bring a modern view of this military disaster to a popular audience.
One of the most famous battles in history, Gallipoli forced Churchill from office, established Turkey's iconic founder Mustafa Kemal ('Ataturk') and marked Australia's emergence as a nation in its own right. It had begun as a bold move led by the British to ultimately 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 aircraft overhead -to the desperate attacks of early summer and the battle of attrition that followed, it was a lunacy that was never going to succeed.
Drawing on unpublished personal accounts by individuals at all levels and from all sides -not only from Britain, Australia and New Zealand, but unusually from Turkey and France too -Peter Hart combines his trademark eye for vivid personal stories with a strong narrative to bring a modern view of this military disaster to a popular audience.
A gripping, revisionist account of an epic tragedy, the battle of Gallipoli.
Peter Hart is the Oral Historian at the Imperial War Museum and the author of several acclaimed books about the First World War. He is an internationally acknowledged expert on Gallipoli and has guided British Army staff tours around the battlefield.
A marvellous book ... vivid and compelling
*Economist*
All good history books should be an assault on myth, and in
Gallipoli Peter Hart mounts a supremely effective attack
*Mail on Sunday*
An impressive and timely reminder of the futility of war
*Morning Star*
[A] stirring account
*Irish Examiner*
Superb... a serious and important work on Gallipoli. It is
researched in fine detail and written in Peter Hart's increasingly
excellent style. If you are interested in this campaign, or the
Great War, or just appreciate a well written book, then this is for
you.
*Press Association*
An account filled with insight and poignancy
*TLS*
World War I's Battle of Gallipoli changed the Middle East, built and ruined reputations, swallowed enormous Allied resources, and marked Australia's and New Zealand's emergence as nations on the world stage. It developed into a bloody sinkhole that wasted lives without discernible strategic benefit owing to British arrogance, incompetent leadership, and stiff Turkish resistance. Churchill lost his job, but Mustafa Kemal (later known as Ataturk) established himself as the founder of modern Turkey. Hart (oral historian, Imperial War Museum; The Somme) brings many unpublished first-person accounts and official records into focus with scathing assessment of the planners, from the cabinet down, and descriptions of soldiers trapped in an unforgiving nightmare. -VERDICT An important reevaluation, largely from the Allied point of view. An excellent summary of an iconic campaign, offering many lessons for war planners. Readable but most accessible to specialists.-Edwin B. Burgess, U.S. Army Combined Arms Research Lib., Fort Leavenworth, KS (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
A marvellous book ... vivid and compelling * Economist *
All good history books should be an assault on myth, and in
Gallipoli Peter Hart mounts a supremely effective attack * Mail on
Sunday *
An impressive and timely reminder of the futility of war * Morning
Star *
[A] stirring account * Irish Examiner *
Superb... a serious and important work on Gallipoli. It is
researched in fine detail and written in Peter Hart's increasingly
excellent style. If you are interested in this campaign, or the
Great War, or just appreciate a well written book, then this is for
you. -- David McLoughlin * Press Association *
An account filled with insight and poignancy -- Craig Gibson * TLS
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