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Book The Path to Gallipoli

Download or read book The Path to Gallipoli written by Ian C. McGibbon and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On 25 April 1915 New Zealand troops land ed at Anzac cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula ... This book is a study of the strategic and defence background to New Zealand's participation in this tragic campaign. It examines the evolution of New Zealand's external defence policy from teh establishment of the colony in 1840 in 1840, and outlines the process whereby New Zealand's focus shifted from a narrow South Pacific perspective to a concern for the security of the British Empire as a whole. In defending the integrity of the Imperial Defence system, New Zealand hoped to ensure its own position ..."--Inside front cover.

Book Silent Landscape at Gallipoli

Download or read book Silent Landscape at Gallipoli written by Simon Doughty and published by Helion. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evocative and richly atmospheric photographs of the Gallipoli Peninsula's battlefields today.

Book The road to Gallipoli

Download or read book The road to Gallipoli written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Turn Right at Istanbul

Download or read book Turn Right at Istanbul written by Tony Wright and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2003 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal account of the author's visit to Turkey, offering practical advice for the thousands of Australians who dream of making the nostalgic journey to Turkey and Gallipoli, coupled with a short history of the area and its role in WWI.

Book Gallipoli   the Road to Jerusalem

Download or read book Gallipoli the Road to Jerusalem written by Kelvin Crombie and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gallipoli Campaign which began on 25 April 1915 was one of the biggest Allied defeats of World War One. Yet it stirred the imaginations and passions of many, evoking thoughts for some of the reconquest of the ancient Byzantine capital of Constantinople, and for Jewish and Arab nationalists of the establishment of independent nations. The Gallipoli (or Dardanelles) Campaign was pivotal in the formation of the modern Middle East, as it ultimately resulted in the collapse of the 400 year old Ottoman Turkish Empire, which led in turn to the establishment of the Arab nations of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Saudi Arabia - and the Jewish nation of Israel. Gallipoli was the beginning of a road that led to Beersheba, Jerusalem and Damascus. Those military successes by the soldiers of the British Empire (assisted by Feisal and Lawrence), created the political environment for the establishment of those new nation entities. The destinies of many nations were associated with Gallipoli, including Australia and New Zealand (the Anzacs) which fought their first battle there as sovereign nations. This is an updated version of Anzacs, Empires and Israel's Restoration 1798-1948 (published in 1998), but includes more archival material and culminates on 25 April 1920, when the League of Nations legally laid the foundations for Israel and for some of those Arab nations to come into existence.

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 Gallipoli

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  • Author : Les Carlyon
  • Publisher : Macmillan Publishers Aus.
  • Release : 2014-11-01
  • ISBN : 1743535929
  • Pages : 910 pages

Download or read book Gallipoli written by Les Carlyon and published by Macmillan Publishers Aus.. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive work and national bestseller "The book of the year" Alan Ramsey, Sydney Morning Herald Les Carlyon's Gallipoli is the epic story of the fighting men who forged the legend of Anzac in 1915. Taking the reader behind the lines and into the trenches, Gallipoli not only brings an infamous battlefield to vivid life but puts poignant breath in the bones of the ordinary heroes who lived and died there. War stories are rarely this personal but Carlton's meticulous research and mesmeric storytelling take readers up-close with the conflict like never before, poetically evoking an ancient landscape rooted in myth, a theatre for Alexander the Great, St Paul and the Trojan Wars, and then intimately populating it with soldiers, generals and politicians from the Allied and Turkish forces. A century on from the Anzac landing on 25 April 1915, Les Carlyon's Gallipoli endures, a masterpiece every bit as haunting and heartbreaking as the events it records. Once read, it is never forgotten.

Book Soldier Of The Gallipoli Campaign 1915

Download or read book Soldier Of The Gallipoli Campaign 1915 written by Sandee Bostelmann and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gallipoli campaign was a military campaign in the First World War that took place on the Gallipoli peninsula, from 17 February 1915 to 9 January 1916. The Entente powers, Britain, France, and Russia, sought to weaken the Ottoman Empire, one of the Central Powers, by taking control of the Turkish straits. But thanks to the military incompetence of the higher commands, it ended in tragedy and unimaginable suffering, as the battle turned into a war of nerves largely played out in the hellish setting of the tunnels constantly being built by either side. The human cost was vast, with more than 50,000 Allied soldiers losing their lives, and it became known as the most controversial action of the war. The author was one of the 400,000 British and Empire troops who took part and along with his comrades from the UK, Australia, and New Zealand, showed extraordinary heroism and courage in the face of terrible hardship and danger.

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 Diary

Download or read book Gallipoli Diary written by Ian Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Den engelske General Ian Hamilton's dagbog fra kampene ved Gallipoli, ved Dardanellerne, 1915-16, under 1. Verdenskrig. Kampene var meget blodige med store tabstal for den engelske side.

Book The Journey to Gallipoli

Download or read book The Journey to Gallipoli written by Rupert Henderson and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proof of War

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  • Author : Sherril Jennings
  • Publisher : UmPrint Publishing
  • Release : 2018-06-01
  • ISBN : 0473439115
  • Pages : 144 pages

Download or read book Proof of War written by Sherril Jennings and published by UmPrint Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Bell McBride photographed the Gallipoli campaign. This book reproduces his original photo album featuring 172 photographs of New Zealanders at war. This is what the Gallipoli campaign looked like through the eyes of one young man. These are the people. This is the landscape. This is the war. These are the soldiers. We will remember them.

Book Watson s Pier

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  • Author : Joshua Funder
  • Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
  • Release : 2015-04-01
  • ISBN : 0522867588
  • Pages : 277 pages

Download or read book Watson s Pier written by Joshua Funder and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 20 December 1977, as Stanley Watson takes the slow train journey to family Christmas, memories from over 60 years ago play in his mind. He had been and still was a man of his time, as as steady, simple and direct as the railway lines he built. As an engineer in the 28th Signalling Company, recently wed and with a young child, he knew it to be his duty to enlist as soon as war broke out in 1914. He left for Egypt in October and he knows his wife is pregnant as he reaches Gallipoli on 25 April 1915, a participant in that fateful landing that is writ large in Australian history. He survived that landing to construct the first pier at Anzac Cove, from which the Anzacs withdrew on the nights of 18 and 19 December. For a long time, he was known as the last man to leave Gallipoli. Watson's Pier is a beautifully told story as seen through the eyes of Stanley Watson, one of the leaders of the escape from Gallipoli. It draws on Watson’s story, his writing, oral history and the official war records. While telling one man's remarkable experience of war for the first time, Watson's Pier challenges history on the final moments at ANZAC Cove and offers a new perspective on the meaning of Gallipoli.

Book From Gallipoli to Coopers Creek

Download or read book From Gallipoli to Coopers Creek written by Cate Davis and published by . This book was released on 2015-10 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of one soldier of the so called Great War. He sailed from Australia at the end of 1914, a proud, even bombastic youth with the certainty that he would do his bit to save Mother England and by doing so, set the world on the right path. He was totally ignorant of the real causes of this war and the place that the different countries played in it.When he landed at Gallipoli though and found the air permeated with the stench of the hundreds of rotting bodies still lying where they had fallen a month earlier, he was confronted by the reality and horror of war. He records his first shot in his diary - it was far from the first time he had fired a gun, but it was the first time he had deliberately fired a shot with the intent of killing another human being.The evacuation of Gallipoli, then the inept defeat at Gaza and the realisation that he had to become a completely different person to be able to obey the orders he was given weighed heavily on his soul. Gandhi once said that 'Man finds himself by losing himself', and this is the story of how Lieutenant Bruce Campbell struggled to find himself and the difficulties he had in fitting back into a society where the civilians were still thinking in terms of their pre-war society.Returning home brought no joy either. Even things that he expected to be familiar nowseemed strange and no one at home had any idea of what the war was really like. To make matters worse, he was dumped by his fiance.This biographical novel is about his struggles to overcome all these adversities. He finally falls in love with a woman who has also been adversely affected by the war and has her own obstacles to overcome. Between them, they carve out a happy and meaningful life on the block of land Bruce has been granted under the Soldier Settlement Scheme. It is a heartwarming story about the legacy of the war and the healing power of love.

Book Gallipoli 1915

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  • Author : Joseph Murray
  • Publisher : Silvertail Books
  • Release : 2015-02-27
  • ISBN : 9781909269118
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Gallipoli 1915 written by Joseph Murray and published by Silvertail Books. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1915, the Gallipoli campaign was intended to knock the Turkish Empire out of the First World War and open a supply route to Russia, strengthening the allies immeasurably in the process. But thanks to the military incompetence of the higher commands, it ended in tragedy and unimaginable suffering, as the battle turned into a war of nerves largely played out in the hellish setting of the tunnels constantly being built by either side. The human cost was vast, with more than 50,000 Allied soldiers losing their lives, and it became known as the most controversial action of the war. Joseph Murray was one of the 400,000 British and Empire troops who took part and along with his comrades from the UK, Australia and New Zealand, showed extraordinary heroism and courage in the face of terrible hardship and danger. GALLIPOLI 1915 is his account of the campaign. Based on a diary Murray kept at the time and his later letters home, this riveting and detailed true story of a young man at war serves as a stunning tribute to the bravery shown by Murray and his fellow soldiers, and to the sacrifices they made in the name of their country.

Book The Gallipoli Story

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  • Author : Patrick Carlyon
  • Publisher : e-penguin
  • Release : 2003-04-14
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book The Gallipoli Story written by Patrick Carlyon and published by e-penguin. This book was released on 2003-04-14 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of the Gallipoli campaign.

Book Blood and Dirt

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  • Author : Jared Davidson
  • Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1991033419
  • Pages : 381 pages

Download or read book Blood and Dirt written by Jared Davidson and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picture, for a minute, every artwork of colonial New Zealand you can think of. Now add a chain gang. Hard-labour men guarded by other men with guns. Men moving heavy metal. Men picking at the earth. Over and over again. This was the reality of nineteenth-century New Zealand. Forced labour haunts the streets we walk today and the spaces we take for granted. The unfree work of prisoners has shaped New Zealand's urban centres and rural landscapes, and Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa – the Pacific – in profound and unsettling ways. Yet these stories are largely unknown: a hidden history in plain sight. Blood and Dirt explains, for the first time, the making of New Zealand and its Pacific empire through the prism of prison labour. Jared Davidson asks us to look beyond the walls of our nineteenth- and early twentieth-century prisons to see penal practice as playing an active, central role in the creation of modern New Zealand. Journeying from the Hohi mission station in the Bay of Islands through to Milford Sound, vast forest plantations, and on to Parliament itself, this vivid and engaging book will change the way you view New Zealand.