Gardens of Hell : battles of the Gallipoli Campaign /
Gariepy, Patrick.
Gardens of Hell : battles of the Gallipoli Campaign / Patrick Gariepy. - Lincoln : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (xiv, 368 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
"A day which I shall not forget": the battle is joined -- "The results were disastrous": forcing the Dardanelles -- "Death on the eve of battle": the preparations -- "My God it's all horrible": the landings of April 25, 1915: ANZAC -- "This place was littered with dead from the boats": the landings of April 25, 1915: Helles -- "Had we gone forward we should have been wiped out": the battles of April: Helles -- "They died like gallant officers and gentlemen": the May battles -- "A lot of our poor fellows were drowned": the war at sea -- "We had the great experience to have a glimpse of Hell": the June battles -- "There was no one left to fire": battles of August and the final offensives -- "Not actually all the King's men": the battles of July 12 and August 12 -- "And all suffered severely": the great storm, November 27-28, 1915 -- "We have lost the game": evacuation.
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 w.
9781612346847
World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Turkey--Gallipoli Peninsula.
Electronic Books.
D568 / .G373 2014
Gardens of Hell : battles of the Gallipoli Campaign / Patrick Gariepy. - Lincoln : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (xiv, 368 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
"A day which I shall not forget": the battle is joined -- "The results were disastrous": forcing the Dardanelles -- "Death on the eve of battle": the preparations -- "My God it's all horrible": the landings of April 25, 1915: ANZAC -- "This place was littered with dead from the boats": the landings of April 25, 1915: Helles -- "Had we gone forward we should have been wiped out": the battles of April: Helles -- "They died like gallant officers and gentlemen": the May battles -- "A lot of our poor fellows were drowned": the war at sea -- "We had the great experience to have a glimpse of Hell": the June battles -- "There was no one left to fire": battles of August and the final offensives -- "Not actually all the King's men": the battles of July 12 and August 12 -- "And all suffered severely": the great storm, November 27-28, 1915 -- "We have lost the game": evacuation.
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 w.
9781612346847
World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Turkey--Gallipoli Peninsula.
Electronic Books.
D568 / .G373 2014