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"Describes the tragic folly and physical horror of the World War I Allied campaign at Gallipoli, outlining its plans, failures, and casualties."
"Gallipoli was the scene of an important battle during the First World War."@en
"When Turkey unexpectedly sided with Germany in World War I, Winston Churchill, as Sea Lord for the British, 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 vivid 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."@en
"An account of the Dardenelles campaign of 1915, which, had it succeeded might have halved the length of World War 1."@en
"When Turkey unexpectedly sided with Germany in World War I, Winston Churchill, as Sea Lord for the British, 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 vivid 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. -- Publisher's description."
"A century has now gone by, yet the Gallipoli campaign of 1915-16 is still infamous as arguably the most ill conceived, badly led and pointless campaign of the entire First World War. The brainchild of Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, following Turkey's entry into the war on the German side, its ultimate objective was to capture the Gallipoli peninsula in western Turkey, thus allowing the Allies to take control of the eastern Mediterranean and increase pressure on the Central Powers to drain manpower from the vital Western Front. From the very beginning of the first landings, however, the campaign went awry, and countless casualties. The Allied commanders were ignorant of the terrain, and seriously underestimated the Turkish army which had been bolstered by their German allies. Thus the Allies found their campaign staled from the off and their troops hopelessly entrenched on the hillsides for long agonising months, through the burning summer and bitter winter, in appalling, dysentery-ridden conditions. By January 1916, the death toll stood at 21,000 British troops, 11,000 Australian and New Zealand, and 87,000 Turkish and the decision was made to withdraw, which in itself, ironically, was deemed to be a success."
""Using private papers as well as official records, Alan Moorehead re-creates with extraordinary vividness the drama of Gallipoli with its tragic hesitations and missed opportunities."--Page 4 of cover."

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"Electronic books"@en
"History"
"History"@en
"Schlacht (1915)"
"Military history"
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"Gallipoli [Spanish edition]"
"Gallipoli"@en
"Gallipoli"
"Garipori"@ja
"Gallipoli"@es
"Gallipoli"@sv
"Galipoli"
"Gallipoli. [With plates.]"
"Gallipoli. [With plates.]"@en
"Gariporī : dai-1ji taisen ni okeru saidai no yūki to saidai no gukō"
"גליפולי"
"Dardanelles "Gallipoli"
"Gallipoli, etc"
"Dardanelles : ["Gallipoli". Traduction de R. Jouan.]"
"Gallipoli. [With plates, including portraits, maps and plans.]"@en
"ガリポリ : 第1次大戦における最大の勇気と最大の愚行"
"Gallipoli. [With plates, including maps.]"
"Dardanelles"
"Gallipoli. [With plates, including maps.]"@en
"Gallipoli : [första världskrigets största misstag]"@sv

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