gallipoli l a carlyon

''Because it was fought so close to his old home ground, Homer might have seen this war on the Gallipoli Peninsula as an epic. Brief by his standards, but essentially heroic. Shakespeare might have seen it as a tragedy with splendid bit-parts for buffoons and brigands and lots of graveyard scenes. Those thigh bones you occasionally see rearing out of the yellow earth of Gully ravine, snapped open so that they look like pumice, belong to a generation of young men who on this peninsula first lost their innocence and then their lives, and maybe something else as well...''Gallipoli remains one of the most poignant battlefronts of the First World War and L. A. Carlyon''s monumental account of that campaign has been rightfully acclaimed and a massive bestseller in Australia. Brilliantly told, supremely readable and deeply moving, Gallipoli brings this epic tragedy to life and stands as both a landmark chapter in the history of the war and a salutary reminder of all that is fine and all that is foolish in the human condition.

Objev podobné jako Gallipoli - L A Carlyon

Provides the historical background to the Gallipoli campaign.

Objev podobné jako Major & Mrs Holt's (Gallipoli) Battlefield Guide to Gallipoli - Tonie Holt, Valmai Holt

Gallipoli, tells of the disastrous campaign at Gallipoli in 1915 when the allies failed to knock Turkey out of the war. Complete with then and now photographs the book provides detailed historical descriptions of the area and the events, all of which will appeal to the armchair historian and the intrepid visitor to the sites. It will prove an indispensable reference guide to this disastrous allied action on the Turkish coast in World War I.

Objev podobné jako Gallipoli - Nigel Steel

A deeply moving story of courage, resilience and self-discovery, set during the Gallipoli campaign of 1915-16

Objev podobné jako The Fires of Gallipoli - Barney Campbell

''The scene was tragically macabre: the image of desolation, the flames spared nothing. As for our young men, a few minutes ago, so alert, so self-confident, all now lying dead on the bare deck, blackened burned skeletons, twisted in all directions, no trace of any clothing, the fire having devoured all.'' Vice Admiral P. E. Guéprette recalls the damage to the French ship Suffen during a naval battle in 1915.One of the most famous battles in history, Gallipoli forced Churchill from office, established Turkey''s iconic founder Mustafa Kemal (''Ataturk'') and marked Australia''s emergence as a nation in its own right. It had begun as a bold move led by the British to ultimately capture Constantinople, but this definitive new history explains that from the initial landings - which ended with so much blood in the sea it could be seen from aircraft overhead - to the desperate attacks of early summer and the battle of attrition that followed, it was a lunacy that was never going to succeed. Drawing on unpublished personal accounts by individuals at all levels and from all sides - not only from Britain, Australia and New Zealand, but unusually from Turkey and France too - Peter ... Unknown localization key: "more"

Objev podobné jako Gallipoli - Peter Hart

In this work, the author presents the precise spots where the battle at Gallipoli took place with a range of contemporary photographs. It provides a link between past and present; from one century to the next; that the deeds of those whose bones lie buried in a foreign field shall not be forgotten.

Objev podobné jako Gallipoli - Steve Newman