Gallipoli to Captivity: The First World War Experiences of an Officer of the 6th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment

by John Still

Book Overview

In the hands of the Turks during the Great War

The author of this book, John Still, was an officer in the 6th Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment and was part of the imaginative, but ultimately disastrous, amphibious assault on the Gallipoli peninsula in the Dardanelle's as part of the Middle Eastern Campaign in 1915 which was intended to initiate the fall of Germany's ally, the ailing Ottoman Empire. Winston Churchill, then First Sea...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857066889
• ISBN13: 9780857066886
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Leonaur Ltd
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"