Gallipoli
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
In one of the First World War's most catastrophic and haunting campaigns, Allied forces launched a daring amphibious assault on the Gallipoli Peninsula in 1915, gambling that a swift victory could knock the Ottoman Empire out of the war and alter the course of history — a gamble that would cost hundreds of thousands of lives. Alan Moorehead's Gallipoli chronicles this ill-fated campaign with unflinching precision, tracing the strategic miscalculations of commanders, the extraordinary courage of ordinary soldiers from Australia, New Zealand, Britain, France, and the Ottoman Empire, and the brutal, grinding attrition of warfare on unforgiving terrain. Moorehead, one of the foremost narrative historians of the twentieth century, brings his trademark journalistic clarity and literary elegance to bear on this pivotal episode, weaving personal accounts, official records, and on-the-ground detail into a sweeping and authoritative account. His writing illuminates not only the tactical failures that doomed the campaign, but the larger human tragedy beneath — the gap between imperial ambition and the reality of modern industrial warfare. A masterwork of military history that leaves the reader asking how such a catastrophe was ever allowed to unfold.
Author: Alan Moorehead
Format: Hardback
Published: 1975, Macmillan
Genre: WW1
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
In one of the First World War's most catastrophic and haunting campaigns, Allied forces launched a daring amphibious assault on the Gallipoli Peninsula in 1915, gambling that a swift victory could knock the Ottoman Empire out of the war and alter the course of history — a gamble that would cost hundreds of thousands of lives. Alan Moorehead's Gallipoli chronicles this ill-fated campaign with unflinching precision, tracing the strategic miscalculations of commanders, the extraordinary courage of ordinary soldiers from Australia, New Zealand, Britain, France, and the Ottoman Empire, and the brutal, grinding attrition of warfare on unforgiving terrain. Moorehead, one of the foremost narrative historians of the twentieth century, brings his trademark journalistic clarity and literary elegance to bear on this pivotal episode, weaving personal accounts, official records, and on-the-ground detail into a sweeping and authoritative account. His writing illuminates not only the tactical failures that doomed the campaign, but the larger human tragedy beneath — the gap between imperial ambition and the reality of modern industrial warfare. A masterwork of military history that leaves the reader asking how such a catastrophe was ever allowed to unfold.