Gallipoli

by Peter Hart

Book Overview

One of the most famous battles in history, the WWI Gallipoli campaign began as a bold move by the British to capture Constantinople, but this definitive new history explains that from the initial landings--which ended with so much blood in the sea it could be seen from airplanes overhead--to the desperate attacks of early summer and the battle of attrition that followed, it was a tragic folly destined to fail from the start.

Gallipoli forced...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199361274
• ISBN13: 9780199361274
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 546 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.4" x 8.0"