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Ordered to Die: A History of the Ottoman Army in the First World War (Contributions in Military Studies)
Edward J. Erickson
Greenwood Press, 2000
Simply excellent
This is a really great book, superior in every aspect. For some unknown reasons, many people believe the WW1 is nothing but the Trench Warfare. However, there have been other battles on the Turkish Front, none of them being less impressive than the ones in Europe. The ...
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Forgotten Voices of the Great War: A History of World War I in the Words of the Men and Women Who Were There
Max Arthur
The Lyons Press, 2004
Excellent First-Hand Accounts from WW1
Max Arthur's book covering the Great War is quite unique in that its content is nearly all first-hand accounts from people who experienced the horror of the Great War. The author has utilized a number of tape recorded interviews conducted by the Imperial War Museum in ...
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Gallipoli: The End of the Myth
Robin Prior
Yale University Press, 2009
The Gallipoli campaign of 1915?16 was an ill-fated Allied attempt to shorten the war by eliminating Turkey, creating a Balkan alliance against the Central Powers, and securing a sea route to Russia. A failure in all respects, the operation ended in disaster, and the Allied forces suffered some 390,000 casualties. This conclusive book assesses the ...
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Gallipoli Diaries of the British Commanding General (Complete Vol I & II)
MacMay, 2008
The Gallipoli Campaign took place at Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey from 25 April 1915 to 9 January 1916, during the First World War. A joint British Empire and French operation was mounted to capture the Ottoman capital of Istanbul. The first D-day style invasion was launched to captures of the Turkish gun emplacements so that the British navy ...
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Gallipoli (Perennial Classics)
Alan Moorehead
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2002
A riveting account of possibly the greatest "what might have been" battle of World War I
In every war between two coalitions of nations the military people are faced with a decision. Do they marshal all of their resources against the most powerful of the enemy coalition, knowing that if they can defeat that nation, the others will quickly fall as well? Or ...
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Gallipoli: The Turkish Story
Kevin Fewster, Vecihi Basarin, ...
Allen & Unwin, 2003
needed for the school project
I was glad we were able to get it in one day so my son could read in 2 hours to do his project!!!
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Birds Without Wings
Louis De Bernieres
Vintage, 2005
Birds without wings
This book made an excellent companion as we traveled in Turkey. All the history made everything more understandable especially as we traveled to Gallipoli.
Our Turkish travel leader recommended this book. It intertwines the story of Ataturk, the father of Turkey, ...
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The Story of the 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry
MacMay, 2008
During one of the short periods of training in 1917, it was suggested that lectures should be delivered to the troops on the history of their battalions in France. Accordingly Capt. G. Kirkhouse, then Assistant Adjutant, set to work to collect material for this purpose. Owing to there being no officers, and very few men, who had served ...
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Gallipoli
Les Carlyon
Bantam Books, 2003
Best Recent Account of this WW1 Battle
Les Carlyon's new book (published in 2001 in Australia) covering the Allied campaign against Turkey in the Dardanelles is one of those books that you find hard to put down once you start. In over 540 pages of narrative we get to hear the soldiers speak of their ...
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The Defense of Gallipoli
MacMay, 2008
Could the British have won at Gallipoli? This is a Study but the future four Star General George S. Patton Jr. Written while he as a Lieutenant Colonel. This study of the failures at Gallipoli led to the successful conquest of Europe in 1944.
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Jack Archer - A Tale of the Crimea
LeClue22, 2008
Jack Archer is the story of a young school boy who joins the Crimean War. He travels to Gallipoli and Balaklava and finally to the Battle of the Chenaya River. The Battle of the Chernaya River was fought during the Crimean War on August 16, 1855. The battle was fought between Russian troops and a coalition of French and Sardinian troops. The ...
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Gallipoli 1915: Frontal Assault on Turkey (Campaign)
Philip Haythornthwaite
Osprey Publishing, 1991
An Excellent Jumping-Off Point....
One of the best things that Haythornthwaite's book has going for it is the concise, easy-to-understand manner in which it was written, which is especially helpful in descriptions of the military manoevers that were conducted throughout the Gallipoli campaign. ...
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The Agony of Gallipoli
John Laffin
The History Press, 2005
'Sacred ground of lost endeavour' or 'Hell heaped up'? Controversy still rages today about the Gallipoli campaign, inspired by Winston Churchill and designed to knock Turkey out of World War I, thereby opening a supply route to arms-starved Russia. Was it one of the greatest blunders of the war, misconceived from the start and mishandled by ...
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'Gallipoli', 2008
The Battle of Gallipoli took place at Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey from 25 April 1915 to 9 January 1916, during the First World War. A joint British Empire (including the newly formed Australian and New Zealand Army Corps ANZAC) and French operation was mounted to capture the Ottoman capital of Istanbul, and secure a sea route to Russia. The ...
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The National Army Museum Book of the Turkish Front 1914-18: The Campaigns at Gallipoli, in Mesopotamia and ...
Michael Carver
Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 2003
Excellent personal narratives--4 stars overall
The history of Gallipoli, the Mesopotamian Front and the Palestine front are complex subjects, but to discuss all three in 324 pages does not do each justice. That being said, Lord Carver has written an average history of each campaign. But what is noteworthy for the ...
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