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Book Gallipoli   The Final Bullet

Download or read book Gallipoli The Final Bullet written by Richard Page and published by Foxtrot Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Page makes the argument in Gallipoli - The Final Bullet that treachery and not Government blunder and bungle were responsible for the disaster of the 1915 Gallipoli campaign.In this novel, beginning in the dying years of the 19th century and ending in the middle of the First World War, George Deighton tells his story through his diaries - which fall into the hands of David Peterson, his childhood friend, following George's death.Deighton - charismatic, good-looking, and perhaps even slightly flashy and subject to moods - visits Constantinople, where he is picked up and seduced by a young Turk named Mustafa. As Deighton rises rapidly through the political ranks to the position of Junior Minister to Lord Grey, the British Foreign Secretary, Mustafa arrives in London to blackmail Deighton in a relationship that becomes a combination of fear, exposure, love, and sadism.Meanwhile David Peterson, wounded while serving in the British Army in Gallipoli, finds romance blossoming with Hanna - Deighton's sister. On Peterson's return to England, the two men's stories overlap when Peterson discovers that Deighton's treachery had cost the lives of his friends and thousands of others on the beaches of Gallipoli.Deighton's brief homosexual affair in Turkey sows the seed that grows into a web of treason, passion, and betrayal - culminating in the slaughter of British and ANZAC troops at Gallipoli. His best friend David Peterson is faced with a choice -of exposing him or losing the love of his life.

Book Beer  Bacon and Bullets

Download or read book Beer Bacon and Bullets written by Gal Luft and published by Booksurge Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beer, Bacon and Bullets: Culture in Coalition Warfare from Gallipoli toIraq shows how culture can impact the relations between Westernmilitaries and their non-Western allies.

Book Artillery at Anzac

    Book Details:
  • Author : Chris Roberts
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2021-04-07
  • ISBN : 1922387940
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Artillery at Anzac written by Chris Roberts and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

Book Gallipoli

Download or read book Gallipoli written by David Williamson and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Gallipoli Story

Download or read book The Gallipoli Story written by Patrick Carlyon and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The men were huddled in lifeboats. Some prayed that their legs would work. Some smiled to show they weren't scared. They peered into the darkness ahead and saw nothing. Then, the dark shape of a man standing on a hill. A shout from the shore. A single shot rang out and a bullet hissed overhead. The Gallipoli campaign had begun. Anzac soldiers fought on Turkish soil a century ago. So why do we still care about what happened there? Why do we celebrate a battle lost? The Gallipoli Story takes young people on an unforgettable and tough journey deep into the heartland of war. Patrick Carlyon digs past the myths to explore the lives and choices of the men -- soldiers, politicians and generals alike -- who found themselves caught up in a battle fought far from home. A powerful piece of storytelling that brings history to life -- and shows us the human faces behind the grand story. The CBC Honour Book.

Book Gallipoli

    Book Details:
  • 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 Collier s

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hansi
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1916
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 856 pages

Download or read book Collier s written by Hansi and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gallipoli

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  • Author : Kevin Fewster
  • Publisher : Allen & Unwin
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9781741150933
  • Pages : 198 pages

Download or read book Gallipoli written by Kevin Fewster and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2003 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every Australian old enough to read and write has heard of Gallipoli, yet how many of us have encountered anything beyond the Australian viewpoint. This account from a Turkish perspective broadens our knowledge of these tragic events.

Book The War Lords and the Gallipoli Disaster

Download or read book The War Lords and the Gallipoli Disaster written by Nicholas A. Lambert and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eye-opening interpretation of the infamous Gallipoli campaign that sets it in the context of global trade. In early 1915, the British government ordered the Royal Navy to force a passage of the Dardanelles Straits-the most heavily defended waterway in the world. After the Navy failed to breach Turkish defenses, British and allied ground forces stormed the Gallipoli peninsula but were unable to move off the beaches. Over the course of the year, the Allied landed hundreds of thousands of reinforcements but all to no avail. The Gallipoli campaign has gone down as one of the great disasters in the history of warfare. Previous works have focused on the battles and sought to explain the reasons for the British failure, typically focusing on First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill. In this bold new account, Nicholas Lambert offers the first fully researched explanation of why Prime Minister Henry Asquith and all of his senior advisers--the War Lords--ordered the attacks in the first place, in defiance of most professional military opinion. Peeling back the manipulation of the historical record by those involved with the campaign's inception, Lambert shows that the original goals were political-economic rather than military: not to relieve pressure on the Western Front but to respond to the fall-out from the massive disruption of the international grain trade caused by the war. By the beginning of 1915, the price of wheat was rising so fast that Britain, the greatest importer of wheat in the world, feared bread riots. Meanwhile Russia, the greatest exporter of wheat in the world and Britain's ally in the east, faced financial collapse. Lambert demonstrates that the War Lords authorized the attacks at the Dardanelles to open the straits to the flow of Russian wheat, seeking to lower the price of grain on the global market and simultaneously to eliminate the need for huge British loans to support Russia's war effort. Carefully reconstructing the perspectives of the individual War Lords, this book offers an eye-opening case study of strategic policy making under pressure in a globalized world economy.

Book Collier s Once a Week

Download or read book Collier s Once a Week written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bullets   Billets  WWI Centenary Series

Download or read book Bullets Billets WWI Centenary Series written by Bruce Bairnsfather and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Down South, in the Valley of the Somme, far from the spots recorded in this book, I began to write this story. In billets it was. I strolled across the old farmyard and into the wood beyond. Sitting by a gurgling little stream, I began, with the aid of a notebook and a pencil, to record the joys and sorrows of my first six months in France. I do not claim any unique quality for these experiences. Many thousands have had the same. I have merely, by request, made a record of my times out there, in the way that they appeared to me." This book is part of the World War One Centenary series; creating, collating and reprinting new and old works of poetry, fiction, autobiography and analysis. The series forms a commemorative tribute to mark the passing of one of the world's bloodiest wars, offering new perspectives on this tragic yet fascinating period of human history. Each publication also includes brand new introductory essays and a timeline to help the reader place the work in its historical context.

Book The Beach They Called Gallipoli

Download or read book The Beach They Called Gallipoli written by Jackie French and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-26 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary exploration of Gallipoli created by the incredible Jackie French and Bruce Whatley A hundred years ago, Australians and New Zealanders landed at Anzac Cove, in Turkey. This is the story of Gallipoli as see from the cove; the story of that beach, where thousands died and legends were born. Gallipoli. Created by award-winning duo, Australian Children's Laureate Jackie French and renowned artist and illustrator Bruce Whatley, this powerful and moving book highlights an almost forgotten aspect of Gallipoli: the land itself. Ages: 7-12

Book The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914 1918  The story of Anzac from 4 May  1915  to the evacuation of the Gallipoli peninsula  by C  E  W  Bean

Download or read book The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914 1918 The story of Anzac from 4 May 1915 to the evacuation of the Gallipoli peninsula by C E W Bean written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Daughters of Mars

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas Keneally
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2013-08-20
  • ISBN : 1476734631
  • Pages : 528 pages

Download or read book The Daughters of Mars written by Thomas Keneally and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In what is perhaps “the best novel of his career” (The Spectator), the acclaimed author of Schindler’s List tells the unforgettable story of two sisters whose lives are transformed by the cataclysm of the first world war. In 1915, Naomi and Sally Durance, two spirited Australian sisters, join the war effort as nurses, escaping the confines of their father’s farm and carrying a guilty secret with them. Amid the carnage, the sisters’ tenuous bond strengthens as they bravely face extreme danger and hostility—sometimes from their own side. There is great humor and compassion, too, and the inspiring example of the incredible women they serve alongside. In France, each meets an exceptional man, the kind for whom she might relinquish her newfound independence—if only they all survive. At once vast in scope and extraordinarily intimate, The Daughters of Mars is a remarkable novel about suffering and transcendence, despair and triumph, and the simple acts of decency that make us human even in a world gone mad.

Book Simpson and His Donkey

Download or read book Simpson and His Donkey written by Mark Greenwood and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heroic story of one man and a donkey - and the strange twist of fate that brought two boyhood friends together one last time during the Gallipoli campaign in World War I. Simpson and his Donkey is a poignant account of the story of John Kirkpatrick Simpson and how he and his donkey, Duffy, rescued over 300 men during the campaign at Gallipoli. Backed by detailed research, the text includes a brief biography of the man, details of his work at Gallipoli and also the little known story of how, without realising, he rescued his childhood friend from South Shields, Billy Lowes. The text also includes fact files on Simpson and Billy Lowes, maps and additional historical background information such as how Duffy received a VC.

Book War on the Silver Screen

    Book Details:
  • Author : Glen Jeansonne
  • Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
  • Release : 2014-10
  • ISBN : 1612346413
  • Pages : 201 pages

Download or read book War on the Silver Screen written by Glen Jeansonne and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-10 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans have been almost constantly at war since 1917. In addition to two world wars, the United States has fought proxy wars, propaganda wars, and a “war on terror,” among others. But even with the constant presence of war in American life, much of what Americans remember about those conflicts comes from Hollywood depictions. In War on the Silver Screen Glen Jeansonne and David Luhrssen vividly demonstrate how war movies have burned the images and impressions of those wars onto the American psyche more concretely than has the reality of the wars themselves. That is, our feelings about wars are generated less by what we learn through study and discourse than by powerful cinematic images and dialogue. Films are compressed, intense, and immediate and often a collective experience rather than a solitary one. Actors and drama provide the visceral impact necessary to form perceptions of history that are much more enduring than those generated by other media or experiences. War on the Silver Screen draws on more than a century of films and history, including classics such as All Quiet on the Western Front, Apocalypse Now, and The Hurt Locker, to examine the legacy of American cinema on twentieth- and twenty-first-century attitudes about war.

Book All Kinds of Truths

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wayne Turner
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2008-05
  • ISBN : 059551166X
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book All Kinds of Truths written by Wayne Turner and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some truths lie deeper than others. In this sensuous, mystical tale set in the early 1900s, the journey taken by a young man's heart collides with what he holds most precious: his allegiance to truth. It tells the story of Wendell, torn between his need to know and his need for Maggie, a mysterious young woman who is equally manipulative and captivating.