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EBOOK Gallipoli
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199911875
EAN: 89EA9ABEEB
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Stron: 544
Data wydania: 2011
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One of the most famous battles in history, the WWI Gallipoli campaign began as a        bold move by the British to 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 airplanes overhead--to the desperate attacks of early summer        and the battle of attrition that followed, it was a tragic folly destined to fail        from the start.Gallipoli forced the young Winston Churchill from office, established        Turkey's iconic founder Mustafa Kemal (better known as "e;Ataturk"e;), and marked        Australia's emergence as a nation in its own right. Drawing on unpublished        eyewitness accounts by individuals from all ranks--not only from Britain, Australia        and New Zealand, but from Turkey and France as well--Peter Hart weaves first-hand        stories into a vivid narrative of the battle and its aftermath. Hart, a historian        with the Imperial War Museum and a battlefield tour guide at Gallipoli, provides a        vivid, boots-on-the-ground account that brilliantly evokes the confusion of war, the        horrors of combat, and the grim courage of the soldiers. He provides an astute,        unflinching assessment of the leaders as well. He shows that the British invasion        was doomed from the start, but he places particular blame on General Sir Ian        Hamilton, whose misplaced optimism, over-complicated plans, and unwillingness to        recognize the gravity of the situation essentially turned likely failure into        complete disaster.Capturing the sheer drama and bravery of the ferocious fighting,        the chivalry demonstrated by individuals on both sides amid merciless wholesale        slaughter, and the futility of the cause for which ordinary men fought with        extraordinary courage and endurance--Gallipoli is a riveting account of a battle        that continues to fascinate us close to a hundred years after the event.

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