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Gallipoli
When Turkey unexpectedly sided with Germany in World War I, Winston Churchill, as Sea Lord for the British, conceived a plan: smash through the Dardanelles, reopen the Straits to Russia, and immobilize the Turks.
On the night of March 18, 1915, this plan nearly succeeded -- the Turks were virtually beaten. But poor communication left the Allies in the dark, allowing the
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Published
December 3rd 2002
by Harper Perennial
(first published 1956)
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Has World War I become the forgotten war? It was the "war to end all wars," but then it became overshadowed by the next world war.
One of the darkest chapters of the war was Gallipoli, an ill-planned, badly executed attempt to break the stalemate by striking into the heart of Germany through Turkey.
The naval bombardment did not go right. The landing forces got trapped on beaches. The Turks turned out to have a lot more fight than the British ever expected. The Br...more
One of the darkest chapters of the war was Gallipoli, an ill-planned, badly executed attempt to break the stalemate by striking into the heart of Germany through Turkey.
The naval bombardment did not go right. The landing forces got trapped on beaches. The Turks turned out to have a lot more fight than the British ever expected. The Br...more
This was my ANZAC octave reading. Moorehead narrates the impossibilities and hopes of the Gallipoli landings with clarity, humor and generosity towards the Allies and their foes. Missing is the usual mythologizing and sentimentality that reduces the Gallipoli campaign to a faded image of its ancient precursor poetically captured by Homer. Comfortable in the heady debates of admirals as with life in the trenches, Moorehead covers the social and political ground as best an anyone i know.
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If you have any interest in military history, it is an exceptionally good account of one of the more notorious campaigns of WW I. It has a great account of Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty and Kirchner as the overall head of Britan's war effort going back and forth as to whether to ever try getting through the Dardanelles strait and trying to take Constantinople and the courting of the 'Young Turks' (the revolutionaries who overthrew the Sultan) by Germany, as well as a really well-writt...more
Readable history of the invasion of this peninsula belonging to Turkey in World War I. I have found out there are more detailed and accurate accounts, so I'll have to read those too, but I've wanted to read this for several years and finally got it done! It's a sad story. I saw a good documentary film on it also, a few weeks ago.
Right after I read this I read Matterhorn.Two different times and places, very similar human errors and stories. Terrific writer...heartbreaking story. Love the privates and hate the generals.
Not as smooth a read as 1776, but much more satisfying. While this book is written in a clinical, "historical record" type of style, it doesn't lose its humanity. The author tells the story of the war by writing about the struggles and conflicts and heartbreaks of the people involved. As a result, I came away with real knowledge of the events of the Gallipoli Campagin of WWI and real empathy for the men on both sides of the razor wire.
Moorehead reminds us that things aren't terrible because they just happen to be, they're terrible because we made them that way. And nothing happens in a vacuum. It's pretty depressing, I know, but he also writes pretty well. And there's pictures.
Not very good historical writing. The author does a poor job of explaining the organizations on either side, Allied or Turkish. Plodding style.
No index (this is for the Ballatine edition).
No index (this is for the Ballatine edition).
Possibly the best book on history (of an event) that I have ever read. One of my all-time favs.
Superlatives cannot do justice to this book, excellent.
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Alan Moorehead was lionised as the literary man of action: the most celebrated war correspondent of World War II; author of award winning books; star travel writer of The New Yorker; pioneer publicist of wildlife conservation. At the height of his success, his writing suddenly stopped and when, 17 years later, his death was announced, he seemed a heroic figure from the past. His fame as a writer g...more
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