A 'Duty Clear Before Us': North Beach And The Sari Bair Range, Gallipoli Peninsula, 25 April-20 December 1915
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few campaigns in modern warfare have burned themselves into a nation's consciousness as completely as the Gallipoli landings of 1915, and A 'Duty Clear Before Us' presents an intimate and forensic account of the fighting that raged across North Beach and the Sari Bair Range of the Gallipoli Peninsula between 25 April and 20 December of that defining year. The book chronicles the brutal realities of trench warfare, amphibious assault, and the grinding attrition suffered by ANZAC and Allied forces as they struggled to secure a foothold against a determined Ottoman defence — a campaign whose dramatic terrain, rendered in haunting earth tones on the cover, becomes as much a character in the narrative as the soldiers themselves. Steeped in the tradition of serious Australian and New Zealand military historiography, this work argues that the Gallipoli campaign was not merely a tactical episode but a crucible that forged a distinct national identity for the young nations of the southern hemisphere. Drawing on primary sources, battlefield geography, and operational records, the account illuminates the courage and sacrifice that gave rise to the ANZAC legend — and compels the reader to ask whether the lessons of that distant peninsula have ever truly been learned.
Author: Various
Format: Paperback
Genre: WW1
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few campaigns in modern warfare have burned themselves into a nation's consciousness as completely as the Gallipoli landings of 1915, and A 'Duty Clear Before Us' presents an intimate and forensic account of the fighting that raged across North Beach and the Sari Bair Range of the Gallipoli Peninsula between 25 April and 20 December of that defining year. The book chronicles the brutal realities of trench warfare, amphibious assault, and the grinding attrition suffered by ANZAC and Allied forces as they struggled to secure a foothold against a determined Ottoman defence — a campaign whose dramatic terrain, rendered in haunting earth tones on the cover, becomes as much a character in the narrative as the soldiers themselves. Steeped in the tradition of serious Australian and New Zealand military historiography, this work argues that the Gallipoli campaign was not merely a tactical episode but a crucible that forged a distinct national identity for the young nations of the southern hemisphere. Drawing on primary sources, battlefield geography, and operational records, the account illuminates the courage and sacrifice that gave rise to the ANZAC legend — and compels the reader to ask whether the lessons of that distant peninsula have ever truly been learned.