VCs OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR : GALLIPOLI

Snelling, Stephen

ISBN 10: 0905778332 / ISBN 13: 9780905778334

Editore: Wrens Park, Derby's, 1999

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VCs OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR GALLIPOLI. Stephen Snelling. Wrens Park, Derbys. 1999 First Thus. ISBN 0905778332 264pp Illustrated Hardback. This copy is bound in illustrated laminated covered boards, a dust wrapper is not called for. The text block is bright, tight, white and square. 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 war's 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. Ref CC6.

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• Titolo: VCs OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR : GALLIPOLI
• Editore: Wrens Park, Derby's
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0905778332
• ISBN 13: 9780905778334
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Edizione: First Thus
• Condizione: Fine

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Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 264 pages; Description: 264 p. : ill. Impressively photo illustrated and complete with a comprehensive bibliography. Summary: 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 became a tragedy of lost opportunities. By January 1916, when the last men were taken off the peninsula, the casualties totalled 205,000. This book tells the stories of the 39 men whose bravery on the battlefield was rewarded by the Victoria Cross, among them the war's 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.