Richard Van Emden

Gallipoli: The Dardanelles Disaster in Soldiers' Words and Photographs

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Presenting more than 150 never-before-published photographs of the campaign, many taken by the soldiers themselves, together with unpublished written material from British, Anzac, French, and Turkish sources, including eyewitness accounts of the landings, this is an unrivaled account of what really happened at Gallipoli. Van Emden's gripping narrative and lucid analysis of Churchill's infamous operation complements Stephen Chambers's evocative images, showing how the rapid spread of diseases like dysentery, the lack of clean water and food, and the tremendous losses on both sides affected morale, until finally in January 1916, in what were t… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Chambers, Stephen

ISBN: 978-1-4088-5615-4
EAN: 9781408856154
Produktnummer: 17175380
Verlag: Bloomsbury
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 352 S.
Masse: H24.1 cm x B18.7 cm x D3.8 cm 1'115 g
Gewicht: 1115

Über den Autor

Richard van Emden has interviewed more than 270 veterans of the Great War and has written sixteen books on the subject, including The Trench and The Last Fighting Tommy, both of which were top ten bestsellers. He has also worked on more than a dozen television programmes on the First World War, including Prisoners of the Kaiser, Veterans, Britain's Last Tommies, the award-winning Roses of No Man's Land, Britain's Boy Soldiers, A Poem for Harry, War Horse: The Real Story, Teenage Tommies with Fergal Keane, and most recently, Tommy's War. He lives in London.Stephen Chambers has written three battlefield guides, Gully Ravine, Anzac The Landing and most recently Suvla: August Offensive. He is a military historian and a well-known tour guide to the battlefields. His books are currently being translated into Turkish to cater for the growing Turkish market.