TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moorehead,Alan
TI  - Gallipoli
SN  - 9780060130251
AV  - D568.3 .M78
PY  - 1956///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Harper & Brothers Publishers
KW  -  
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - Turkey
KW  - Gallipoli Peninsula
KW  - Military campaigns
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-372) and index
N2  - When Turkey unexpectedly sided with Germany in World War I, Winston Churchill conceived a plan: smash through the Dardanelles, reopen the Straits to Russia, and immobilize the Turks. On the night of March 18, 1915, this plan nearly succeeded -- the Turks were virtually beaten. But poor communication left the Allies in the dark, allowing the Turks to prevail and the Allies to suffer a crushing quarter-million casualties. A chronicle of adventure, suspense, agony, and heroism, Gallipoli brings fully to life the tragic waste in human life, the physical horror, and the sheer heartbreaking folly of fighting for impossible objectives with inadequate means on unknown, unmapped terrain
ER  -