Gallipoli by Alan
Moorhead
In 1915 the Gallipoli campaign was designed to break the deadlock in
the muddy trenches of the Western Front by forcing the Dardanelles,
capturing Constantinople, knocking Turkey out of the war and bringing
supplies and arms to the Russians for their immense German front. It was a
costly failure.
Using private papers as well as official records, Alan Moorehead
recreates with extraordinary vividness the drama of Gallipoli with its
tragic hesitations and missed opportunities. He describes the heroism of
the British and Anzac troops who were hemmed within a few terrible acres
of beach and hillside and permanently under shellfire. His sympathetic
account provided the basis for the film Gallipoli, and won the first Duff
Cooper Prize for Literature.
Book serial number W43. Price £5.99. Fully illustrated paperback
with 320 pages.
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