Gallipoli to Captivity

The First World War Experiences of an Officer of the 6th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment

Autor: John Still

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Väzba: Brožovaná

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In the hands of the Turks during the Great War The author of this boo...

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Autor

John Still

Jazyk

Angličtina

Väzba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydalo

2011

Stránok

132

EAN

9780857066886

ISBN

9780857066886

Enbook ID

07415623

Vydavateľ

Leonaur Ltd

Hmotnosť

182

Rozmery

143 x 217 x 8

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In the hands of the Turks during the Great War The author of this book, John Still, was an officer in the 6th Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment and was part of the imaginative, but ultimately disastrous, amphibious assault on the Gallipoli peninsula in the Dardanelle's as part of the Middle Eastern Campaign in 1915 which was intended to initiate the fall of Germany's ally, the ailing Ottoman Empire. Winston Churchill, then First Sea Lord, had a penchant for devising unusual military initiatives and the consequences of this unfortunate brainchild were fated to chillingly revisit him in the Second World War during the Anzio landings in Italy. The experiences of the soldiers on the ground in both episodes also proved remarkably similar. Far from storming ashore to launch themselves in a rapid advance, they found themselves virtual prisoners within a confined beachhead where every attack of the invaders was poorly coordinated and doomed to failure from the outset. So it was that Still and his Yorkshire men were doomed to failure as they tried to achieve their objective both without support and hours after the time originally allotted to them. The outcome was predictable with appalling loss of life and capture and incarceration for the few survivors which included the author of this account. There followed a long journey into captivity followed by years as prisoners of the Turks. How Still and his comrades survived an ordeal that cost so many British soldiers their lives through neglect, poor or non-existent medical care, over work and starvation makes engrossing reading. This book was originally entitled A Prisoner in Turkey. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.

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