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Book The Escape of the Goeben

Download or read book The Escape of the Goeben written by Redmond McLaughlin and published by [London] : Seeley Service. This book was released on 1974 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Prelude to Gallipoli

Download or read book A Prelude to Gallipoli written by Omer S. Ertur and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Prelude to Gallipoli reflects upon a unique period of global military conflicts stretching all the way from the shores of Gallipoli peninsula in the European part of the Ottoman Empire to a small town in the Australian desert. This fictionalized historical novel presents a challenging and thought-provoking story that is based on a restructured and revised slice of history. It intriguingly reinterprets a bloody political incident that occurred in 1915 in a small desert town in Australia from a viewpoint that touches upon some of the historical precedents of the ongoing global terrorism and its relevancy to the state-sponsored terrorism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Book Gallipoli

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  • Author : Robin Prior
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2009-06-02
  • ISBN : 0300159919
  • Pages : 372 pages

Download or read book Gallipoli written by Robin Prior and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The noted historian’s decisive and devastating history of the WWI Battle of Gallipoli “sets a new standard for assessing the Allied Dardanelles campaign" (Mustafa Aksakal, American Historical Review). The Gallipoli campaign of 1915–16 was an ill-fated Allied attempt to take control of the Dardanelles, secure a sea route to Russia, and create a Balkan alliance against the Central Powers. A failure in all respects, the operation ended in disaster, and the Allied forces suffered some 390,000 casualties. In this conclusive study, military historian Robin Prior assesses the many myths about Gallipoli and provides definitive answers to questions that have lingered about the operation. Prior proceeds step by step through the campaign, dealing with naval, military, and political matters and surveying the operations of all the armies involved: British, Anzac, French, Indian, and Turkish. Relying on primary documents, including war diaries and technical military sources, Prior evaluates the strategy, the commanders, and the performance of soldiers on the ground. His conclusions are powerful and unsettling: the naval campaign was not “almost” won, and the land action was not bedeviled by “minor misfortunes.” Instead, the badly conceived Gallipoli campaign was doomed from the start. And even had it been successful, the operation would not have shortened the war by a single day. Despite their bravery, the Allied troops who fell at Gallipoli died in vain. A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2009

Book Gardens of Hell

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  • Author : Patrick Gariepy
  • Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
  • Release : 2014-05-15
  • ISBN : 1612346847
  • Pages : 468 pages

Download or read book Gardens of Hell written by Patrick Gariepy and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gardens of Hell examines the human side of one of the great tragedies of modern warfare, the Gallipoli campaign of the First World War. In February 1915, beginning with a naval attack on Turkey in the Dardanelles, a combined force of British, Australian, New Zealand, Indian, and French troops invaded the Gallipoli Peninsula only to face crushing losses and an ignominious retreat from what seemed a hopeless mission. Both sides in the battle suffered huge casualties, with a combined 127,000 servicemen killed during the action. Patrick Gariepy has pieced together the battle from combatantsÆ own words. Drawn from diaries and letters and from stories passed down through generations of families, these firsthand accounts offer an honest, heartfelt, and sometimes painful testimony to a doomed campaign fought by the men who lived through the fury, terror, and grief that was Gallipoli. Gardens of Hell is a sensitive acknowledgment of the enormous human cost of military folly and failure.

Book The Evacuation Phase Of The Gallipoli Campaign Of 1915

Download or read book The Evacuation Phase Of The Gallipoli Campaign Of 1915 written by Major Keith A. Lawless and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This battle study investigates operational and tactical considerations of the battles of Arracourt, which took place in September 1944 as the 4th Armored Division of Patton’s Third Army clashed with the Fifth German Panzer Army in the French province of Lorraine on the U.S. drive to the German West Wall. By examining detailed German and American unit histories, logs, and summaries, as well as personal papers, this study illuminates differences and similarities in reporting the U.S. penetration from the Nancy Bridgehead to Arracourt, the German offensive at Lunéville as a prelude to Arracourt, and the two German offensives at Arracourt, as the Fifth Panzer Army attempted to link up with a German unit cut off at Nancy. Arracourt exemplifies penetration and mobile defense and illustrates the demand for good intelligence and flexible command and control. It shows the inherent risks of piecemeal commitment of reserves, the need for timely orders and good logistical support, as well as the tactical advantages of air superiority.

Book Gallipoli

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  • Author : Alan Moorehead
  • Publisher : Aurum
  • Release : 2015-04-02
  • ISBN : 1781314853
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book Gallipoli written by Alan Moorehead and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2015-04-02 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century has now gone by, yet the Gallipoli campaign of 1915-16 is still infamous as arguably the most ill conceived, badly led and pointless campaign of the entire First World War. The brainchild of Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, following Turkey's entry into the war on the German side, its ultimate objective was to capture the Gallipoli peninsula in western Turkey, thus allowing the Allies to take control of the eastern Mediterranean and increase pressure on the Central Powers to drain manpower from the vital Western Front. From the very beginning of the first landings, however, the campaign went awry, and countless casualties. The Allied commanders were ignorant of the terrain, and seriously underestimated the Turkish army which had been bolstered by their German allies. Thus the Allies found their campaign staled from the off and their troops hopelessly entrenched on the hillsides for long agonising months, through the burning summer and bitter winter, in appalling, dysentery-ridden conditions. By January 1916, the death toll stood at 21,000 British troops, 11,000 Australian and New Zealand, and 87,000 Turkish and the decision was made to withdraw, which in itself, ironically, was deemed to be a success. First published in 1956, when it won the inaugural Duff Cooper Prize, Alan Moorehead's book is still regarded as the definitive work on this tragic episode of the Great War. One could argue he was the first writer to capture the true turmoil that occurred in this campaign with his colourful, analytical and compelling style of prose. Sir Max Hastings himself says in this new introduction that he was inspired as a young man by Moorehead's books to become a reporter himself. With in-depth analysis of the campaign, the objectives both sides set themselves, and with character sketches of the main players, it brings the complex operation to life, showing how and why it went so terribly wrong and a century on, remains a by word for the loss of human life.

Book Gallipoli

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  • Author : Kevin Fewster
  • Publisher : Allen & Unwin
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9781741141610
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Gallipoli written by Kevin Fewster and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2003 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Gallipoli campaign focussing on the Turkish perspective. Includes interviews with Turkish migrants to Australia and their children about their thoughts on Gallipoli and Australia.

Book Gallipoli

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  • Author : Victor Rudenno
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book Gallipoli written by Victor Rudenno and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an account of the Allied submarine and German U-boat activity in support of all land, sea, and air forces.

Book Gallipoli 1915 2005

Download or read book Gallipoli 1915 2005 written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gallipoli

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  • Author : Peter Hart
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2011-10-03
  • ISBN : 0199836868
  • Pages : 561 pages

Download or read book Gallipoli written by Peter Hart and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-03 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in Great Britain in 2011 by Profile Books"--T.p. verso.

Book The Gallipoli Experience Reconsidered

Download or read book The Gallipoli Experience Reconsidered written by Peter Liddle and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gallipoli Campaign is generally viewed as a disastrous failure of the First World War, inadequately redeemed by the heroism of the soldiers and sailors who were involved in the fighting. But before the first landings were made, the concept of a strike at the Dardanelles seemed to offer a short cut to victory in a war without prospect of end. The venture, and what was required of the men undertaking it who were enduring heavy casualties, eminently deserve reconsideration in the centenary year of the campaign. What fuelled and what drained morale during the eight months of extraordinary human endeavour? A balanced evaluation of the Gallipoli gamble, and of the political and military leadership, are the challenging tasks which Peter Liddle sets himself in his new study of the campaign and the experience of the men who served in it.

Book Proceedings of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow

Download or read book Proceedings of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow written by Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes complete texts or abstracts of lectures delivered before the Society, minutes of meetings, directory of members, and annual accounts.

Book The Bookman

Download or read book The Bookman written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Prelude to Gallipoli

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  • Author : Omer Ertur
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2015-02-17
  • ISBN : 9781505850383
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book A Prelude to Gallipoli written by Omer Ertur and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This documented historical narrative covers global military conflicts stretching from the shores of the Gallipoli Peninsula in the European part of the Ottoman Empire to a small town in the Australian desert. The novel presents a challenging and thought-provoking story that is based on a revised slice of history. It realistically reinterprets the background of a bloody political incident that occurred in Broken Hill on New Year's day 1915. On New Year's Day of 1915, a bloody terrorist attack took place in the Australian town of Broken Hill. The Australian newspapers reported that two armed Turks had attacked a picnic train and murdered innocent civilians. This tragic event bolstered the Australian government's recruitment effort, which had been having difficulty drawing a sufficient number of volunteers for the Great War. Soon after the Broken Hill attack, thousands of Australian and New Zealand volunteers joined the ANZAC forces with a burning desire to punish the Turks. It eventually became apparent that not a single Turk had been involved in the Broken Hill massacre. The suspects, originally from Afghanistan, had been killed immediately after the incident and buried in secret before dawn. All evidence of their innocence was promptly destroyed. Thus, the truth behind this bloody incident was hidden nearly for a century...

Book The Gallipoli Campaign

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  • Author : Metin Gürcan
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2016-04-20
  • ISBN : 1317030850
  • Pages : 237 pages

Download or read book The Gallipoli Campaign written by Metin Gürcan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The war against the Ottomans, on Gallipoli, in Palestine and in Mesopotamia was a major enterprise for the Allies with important long-term geo-political consequences. The absence of a Turkish perspective, written in English, represents a huge gap in the historiography of the First World War. This timely collection of wide-ranging essays on the campaign, drawing on Turkish sources and written by experts in the field, addresses this gap. Scholars employ archival documents from the Turkish General Staff, diaries and letters of Turkish soldiers, Ottoman journals and newspapers published during the campaign, and recent academic literature by Turkish scholars to reveal a different perspective on the campaign, which should breathe new life into English-language historiography on this crucial series of events.

Book Gallipoli

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  • Author : Tolga Örnek
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 150 pages

Download or read book Gallipoli written by Tolga Örnek and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official film tie-in for the feature-length documentary film, Gallipoli. It focuses on the human aspects of the campaign by portraying the experience of ordinary soldiers on both sides, and is told through the diaries of two British, three New Zealand, three Australian and two Turkish soldiers.

Book Men of Gallipoli

Download or read book Men of Gallipoli written by Peter Liddle and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Begivenhederne beskrives med vægt på de deltagende tropper sammensat af mange nationaliteter.