- Hardcover: 608 pages
- Publisher: Doubleday; First Edition First Impression edition (4 Nov 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0385604750
- ISBN-13: 978-0385604758
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.2 x 5.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 477,548 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A supremely readable, brilliantly researched account of one of the most infamous, ill-fated campaigns of the First World War
Alan Ramsey in the 'Sydney Morning Herald'
'The book of the year...GALLIPOLI is just the most stunning account of the Anzac boneyard'
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Carlyon pulls no punches with this authoritative account of the disastrous Gallipoli campaign. He gives no quarter to rank or reputation and the reader will left astonished at the tactics,actions and decisions as the campaign stumbles from one disaster to the next. Unfortunately these costly errors were paid for in human life and suffering. An excellent book on this campaign!
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
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Les Carlyon's new book (published in 2001 in Australia) covering the Allied campaign against Turkey in the Dardanelles is one of those books that you find hard to put down once you start. In over 540 pages of narrative we get to hear the soldiers speak of their terrible trials and tribulations fighting in a harsh environment against a formidable enemy.
The book's main focus is upon the Australian involvement but the author does not neglect the role of the other Allied contingents, soldiers and sailors of the British and French Empires. Nor does his forget the enemy, 'Johnny Turk', who many Australian soldiers later came to respect regardless of the horrific fighting that they had endured.
I suppose many people will ask why Australia continues to make such a fuss over Gallipoli. When you take into consideration that the Australia of 1914 sent out of its small population over 332,000 men to serve overseas and of those 215,000 or more became casualties, (of which 60,000 died). A casualty rate of 65 per cent. Taking those figures into consideration you get an idea of why WW1 and particular Gallipoli means so much to many Australians.
The book is well told and the author uses numerous first-hand accounts of the soldiers, from both sides, who fought during this campaign. The narrative is engrossing, full of interesting facts and stories and just pulls you along further and deeper towards an ending we all know but made more alive and new by the author's style of writing.
I don't think that this book will offer any serious readers of this campaign anything new or startling, but I think that anyone who has a passion for Gallipoli will find this a well told account and close to being the definitive book on the subject. Many aspects of the book, particularly the stories of the blunders made by the Allied High Command still make me shake my head even though I have read it all before.
"We mounted over a plateau and down through gullies filled with thyme, where there lay about 4000 Turkish dead. It was indescribable. One was grateful for the rain and the grey sky. A Turkish Red Crescent man came and gave me some antiseptic wool with scent on it... The Turkish captain with me said: "At this spectacle even the most gentle must feel savage, and the most savage must weep' ... I talked to the Turks, one of whom pointed to the graves. 'That's politics,' he said. Then he pointed to the dead bodies and said: 'That's diplomacy. God pity all us poor soldiers.'" - Captain Aubrey Herbert, ANZAC, May 1915 (taken from the inside dust-jacket of the book).
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Gallipoli
This is an excellent book. Well researched and well written. Easy to understand. Describes the political events leading up to The Gallipoli landings in 1915, and then all the very human events of the landings and occupation of the Gallipoli Peninsular in 1915, with some very touching individual anecdotes. For example it even tells of a lady who was the only lady ever to land at Gallipoli during the fighting so she could lay a wreath at her lovers grave. A good all round read.
Graham
This is an excellent book. Well researched and well written. Easy to understand. Describes the political events leading up to The Gallipoli landings in 1915, and then all the very human events of the landings and occupation of the Gallipoli Peninsular in 1915, with some very touching individual anecdotes. For example it even tells of a lady who was the only lady ever to land at Gallipoli during the fighting so she could lay a wreath at her lovers grave. A good all round read.
Graham
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Evocative and detiled but never boring
I bought this paperback 2nd hand. It arrived promptly and in very good condition.
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Published 8 months ago by Lycett
A great in depth look at the campaign
Written evenly and comprehensively this book is a great account of all involved in the Campaign. It's been very well researched and compiled. Read more
Published on 26 April 2010 by Evan Skuthorpe
Lions led by donkeys,
I'm no expert on the Great War, but if Carlyon's account is anything to go by, Gallipoli was the pinnacle (or nadir) of a pointless war, fought incompetently. Read more
Published on 17 Jan 2010 by Crookedmouth
Outstanding
I have never written a review on Amazon before, but felt compelled to write once once I had finished reading this book for the third time. Read more
Published on 1 Dec 2009 by Jonathan Scott
Unbiased account of the war and easy to read
I enjoyed reading this book, it's written like a novel and above all the author is unbiased towards the Turks. Read more
Published on 19 Oct 2009 by Irfan Kissa
Like Playing Rugby
The Turks tell a story about two New Zealanders they took prisoner in August 1915. The Turks asked them where they were from
New Zealand they said
Never heard... Read more
New Zealand they said
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Published on 8 Jun 2007 by Peter Wade
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