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The Gallipoli Campaign of 1915, a sideshow of the first World War waged by Britain and France against Germany’s ally Turkey, was a total failure that ended in humiliating withdrawal. In eight months it cost 500,000 casualties – killed, wounded, missing and sick – shared about equally between both sides. The Turks at least fell in the successful defence of their homeland; in Peter Hart’s view the Allied soldiers were needlessly sacrificed on a lunatic venture, doomed to failure by muddled strategic thinking, compounded by operational incompetence.
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 start. Gallipoli forced the young Winston Churchill from office, established Turkey's iconic founder Mustafa Kemal (better known as ""Ataturk""), and marked Australia's emergence Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The narrative is from the general to the specific for the military and political decisions that framed and defined the campaign and for each phase of the resulting battle. By taking this approach the author provides the reader with an excellent understanding of all facets of the battle and its consequences. Mr. Hart makes extensive and skillful use of first person accounts of the fighting culled from letters, diaries, articles, and books written by the men who did the fighting on both sides and seamlessly weaves them into the fabric of the text. The end result is a history that holds the readers interest and reads like a fast paced novel. ( )