| Description |
1 online resource (448 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Maps; Preface: The Eyewitnesses Reinstate Truth -- That First Casualty of War; Introduction: Listening to the Anzacs; Prologue: 24 April 1915 -- Anzac Eve; Chapter 1: The Landing -- 25 April; Chapter 2: The Morning After -- 26-30 April; Chapter 3: Burying the Dead -- May; Chapter 4: All Hell Breaks Loose at Helles -- June; Chapter 5: Talk of Mutiny -- July; Chapter 6: Sending Lambs to Slaughter at Lone Pine & the Nek -- August; Chapter 7: Murdoch Exposes the Disaster -- September; Chapter 8: Trading Tucker with the Turks -- October |
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Chapter 9: Lord Kitchener Calls on the Boys -- NovemberChapter 10: Retreating with Honour -- December; Appendix 1: Army Ranks, Abbreviations, and Glossary; Appendix 2: Gallipoli Timeline; Appendix 3: Who Was Who; Appendix 4: The Roll of Honour; References; Acknowledgements; Index |
| Summary |
Gallipoli, for the average Australian, is the most famous battle that our volunteer soldiers ever fought, because it was our first entry as a nation into the war, and our people were keen to prove themselves. It would be, however, a long time before the families back home, and the nation as a whole, heard of the terrible conditions on the peninsula and the waste of life that took place there. Although Gallipoli was a crushing defeat, it was, and still is, celebrated as a victory. In this updated commemorative edition, published 100 years after the 25 April 1915 landing, the Gallipoli story |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 11, 2014) |
| Subject |
Great Britain. Army. Australian and New Zealand Army Corps -- History
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain. Army. Australian and New Zealand Army Corps fast |
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Turkey -- Gallipoli Peninsula -- Chronology
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Turkey -- Gallipoli Peninsula -- Personal narratives, Australian
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Soldiers -- Australia -- Diaries
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War I.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Military campaigns
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Soldiers
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Australia
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Turkey -- Gallipoli Peninsula
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chronologies (lists)
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Personal narratives
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Chronologies
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Diaries
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History
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Personal narratives
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Chronologies.
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Personal narratives.
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Chronologies.
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Récits personnels.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781925113150 |
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1925113159 |
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9781921863752 |
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1921863757 |
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