Gallipoli: The Dardanelles Disaster in Soldiers' Words and Photographs. By Richard Van Emden, Stephen Chambers.

Gallipoli: The Dardanelles Disaster in Soldiers' Words and Photographs

Hardcover, fine condition, as new, with jacket nearly as new, tiny tear top front right edge, and spine of jacket. 352 pages Fully Illustrated 18.54 x 3.56 x 24.13 centimetres (1.09 kg

Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015

Presenting more than 150 never-before-published photographs of the campaign, many taken by the soldiers themselves, together with unpublished written material from British, Anzac, French and Turkish, including eyewitness accounts of the landings, this is an unrivalled account of what really happened at Gallipoli. Van Emden's gripping narrative and lucid analysis of Churchill's infamous operation, complements Chambers's evocative images, showing how the rapid spread of diseases like dissentry, the lack of clean water and food, the tremendous losses on both sides affected morale, until finally in January 1916, in what were the best-laid plans of the entire disastrous campaign, the Allies successfully fooled the Turkish forces and evacuated their troops with no additional casualties. Leading First World War historian Richard van Emden and Gallipoli expert Stephen Chambers have produced a very good book. About the Author Richard van Emden has interviewed more than 270 veterans of the Great War and has written sixteen books on the subject, including The Trench and The Last Fighting Tommy, both of which were top ten bestsellers. He has also worked on more than a dozen television programmes on the First World War, including Prisoners of the Kaiser, Veterans, Britain's Last Tommies, the award-winning Roses of No Man's Land, Britain's Boy Soldiers, A Poem for Harry, War Horse: The Real Story, Teenage Tommies with Fergal Keane, and most recently, Tommy's War.

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