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Gallipoli

Door Stephen Snelling

Categorie
WO I
Boeknummer
#372976-ZD30
Titel
Gallipoli
Auteur
Snelling, Stephen
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Thrupp : Sutton Publishing
Jaar van uitgave
1999
ISBN10
0905778332
ISBN13
9780905778334
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original pictorial boards in matching dust jacket, illustrated endpapers, some illustrations (including photographs) in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting
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 fir... (Lees verder)st Royal Marine VC. It represents the highest number of VCs won in a theatre of war, other than the Western Front.
Pagina's
258
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 15,00

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