GALLIPOLI BY ALAN MOOREHEAD 1st Edition 1956

Published by Hamish Hamilton

INCLUDES SEVERAL FOLDING MAPS OF VARIOUS OF THE ACTIONS AND BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS, CONTAINS CHAPTERS ON THE POLITICAL BACKGROUND OF THE CONFLICT AND A COMPREHENSIVE DESCRIPTION OF THE VARIOUS MILITARY COMPAIGNS.

When Turkey unexpectedly sided with Germany in World War I, Winston Churchill as First Sea Lord for the British conceived a plan of smashing through the Dardanelles, reopening the Straits to Russian shipping, and immobilizing the Turks.

Although on the night of March 18, 1915, this plan nearly succeeded--the Turks were virtually beaten. But poor communication left the Allies in the dark, allowing the Turks to prevail and the Allies to suffer a crushing quarter-million casualties. 

A vivid chronicle of adventure, suspense, agony, and heroism, Gallipoli brings to life the tragic waste in human life, the physical horror, the sheer heartbreaking folly of fighting for impossible objectives with inadequate means on unknown, unmapped terrain.