A Turkish View Of Gallipoli: Çanakkale
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Few battles of the First World War have been chronicled with such ferocity of conviction as the campaign at Gallipoli — yet history has too often told only one side of the story. A Turkish View of Gallipoli: Çanakkale corrects this imbalance by presenting the catastrophic 1915 Dardanelles campaign through the eyes of the Ottoman defenders, drawing on Turkish archival sources, military records, and personal testimony to reconstruct a perspective long overshadowed by ANZAC and British narratives. The reader is immersed in the trenches of Çanakkale alongside soldiers whose courage and sacrifice proved decisive in halting one of the most ambitious Allied offensives of the war, and whose story gave birth to the modern Turkish national identity. This landmark work argues that no complete understanding of Gallipoli is possible without reckoning with the Ottoman military experience — the strategic brilliance, the devastating losses, and the profound cultural memory that transformed Çanakkale into a sacred cornerstone of Turkish consciousness. Written with scholarly rigour yet rendered with an accessibility that speaks to the general reader, the book illustrates how a single campaign can carry entirely different meanings depending on which side of the wire one stood. It is an essential corrective to a century of one-sided historiography, and a powerful reminder that the echoes of Çanakkale still resonate deeply in Turkey to this day — leaving the reader to wonder how many other untold perspectives remain buried beneath the official histories of the Great War.
Author: Birinci, Işıl Bayert, Mustafa Selim Bayert
Format: Hardback
Published: 1111, Hodja Educational Resources
Genre: WW1
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Few battles of the First World War have been chronicled with such ferocity of conviction as the campaign at Gallipoli — yet history has too often told only one side of the story. A Turkish View of Gallipoli: Çanakkale corrects this imbalance by presenting the catastrophic 1915 Dardanelles campaign through the eyes of the Ottoman defenders, drawing on Turkish archival sources, military records, and personal testimony to reconstruct a perspective long overshadowed by ANZAC and British narratives. The reader is immersed in the trenches of Çanakkale alongside soldiers whose courage and sacrifice proved decisive in halting one of the most ambitious Allied offensives of the war, and whose story gave birth to the modern Turkish national identity. This landmark work argues that no complete understanding of Gallipoli is possible without reckoning with the Ottoman military experience — the strategic brilliance, the devastating losses, and the profound cultural memory that transformed Çanakkale into a sacred cornerstone of Turkish consciousness. Written with scholarly rigour yet rendered with an accessibility that speaks to the general reader, the book illustrates how a single campaign can carry entirely different meanings depending on which side of the wire one stood. It is an essential corrective to a century of one-sided historiography, and a powerful reminder that the echoes of Çanakkale still resonate deeply in Turkey to this day — leaving the reader to wonder how many other untold perspectives remain buried beneath the official histories of the Great War.