Vcs Of The First World War Gallipoli

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Sutton Publishing
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 1995
Edition: First Edition

Description: 264 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula on 25 April 1915 represented the greatest amphibious operation carried out during the course of the First World War. What had initially been a purely naval enterprise had escalated to become a full-scale Anglo-French invasion, resulting in an eight-month campaign which Churchill hoped would knock Turkey out of the war. For a campaign that promised so much, it ultimately bacame a tragedy of lost opportunities. By January 1916, when the last men were taken off the peninsula, the casualties totalled 205,000. This book contains new material from recently released archives and tells the stories of the thirty-nine men whose bravery on the battlefield was rewarded by the Victoria Cross, among them the wars first Australian VC, first New Zealand VC, and first Royal Marine VC. It represents the highest number of VCs won in a theatre of war, other than the Western Front.

ISBN: 9780905778334