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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199836868
• ISBN13: 9780199836864
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.4"