Gallipoli: The Dardanelles Disaster in Soldiers' Words and Photographs

HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. FNL.* Date of Publication: 2015. * Publisher: Bloomsbury. * Binding and cover condition: Red cloth covered boards, silver title to spine, none to face. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE.* Jacket condition: Mono photo-illustrated dust wrapper showing soldiers on deck. NOT PRICE CLIPPED showing shelf price of £25.00. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to top edge and to tail of spine otherwise no visible faults. Now in a clear un-attached protective cover. FINE. * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: One b/w photo to frontis and numerous b/w photos within text throughout. * Pages: 331 pp. text. xiii pp. endpiece, acknowledgements, sources, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: Gallipoli, 1915: in an attempt to knock Germany's ally Turkey out of the War, Allied forces have secured a fringe of coastline on the sun-baked Turkish peninsula. The beaches are exposed on all sides and are under continual fir. Fresh water is in desperately short supply. Searing heat, disease and exhaustion make impossible the clear-headed decisions upon which the lives of thousands depend. The brainchild of a headstrong Winston Churchill, the operation is commanded by semi-retired and too often second-rate commanders, recalled to service while fitter and more competent officers are sent to the Western Front. Whatever virtues the plan may have had, its effective execution is undermined almost from the beginning.* A FINE copy of the 1st./1st. with no visible faults in a FINE dust jacket in a clear un-attached protective cover.*