Defeat at Gallipoli

By Nigel Steel & Peter Hart
August 2002
Pan Books
ISBN: 0-330-49058-3
496 pages, Illustrated, 5 x 7 3/4"
$19.95 Paper Original

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The battle for Gallipoli was officially described as "one of the world's classic tragedies" and in this book the participants tell the full story of this failed offensive through contemporary accounts and memories recorded later in life. The bitter campaign against the Turks from April 1915 to January 1916 was ill-conceived, inadequately equipped and never likely to succeed. The bravery and resilience of the troops, drawn from the United Kingdom, from the Empire, from France and her African colonies, in the face of disease and violent death, is shown in their letters, diaries and recorded memories, recalling the sordid reality of the campaign. Linking together these experiences, Nigel Steel and Peter Hart provide a new insight into the lives of the soldiers involved and a powerful, moving account of a doomed campaign.

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