Peter Fitzsimons - Gallipoli (Hardcover)

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🔴 Condition - Good 🔴On 25 April 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey to secure the sea route between Britain and France in the west and Russi a in the east. After eight months of terrible fighting, they would fail. Peter tells this iconic tale in GALLIPOLI.Turkey regards the victory to this day as a defining moment in its history, a heroic last stand in the defence of the nation's Ottoman Empire. But, counter-intuitively, it would signify something perhaps even greater for the defeated Australians and New Zealanders involved- the birth of their countries' sense of nationhood. Show more