TY - BOOK ID - 145662843 TI - Gallipoli AU - Moorehead, Alan AU - McDougall, Russell AU - Elliott, Brian Robinson AU - Sellick, Robert PY - 1968 PB - London : NEL Mentor Books, DB - UniCat KW - World War, 1914-1918 KW - Guerre mondiale (1914-1918) KW - Expédition des Dardanelles (1915-1916) KW - Campaigns KW - Opérations militaires KW - Gallipoli Peninsula (Turkey) KW - Gallipoli, Péninsule de (Turquie) KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:145662843 AB - When Turkey unexpectedly sided with Germany in World War I, Winston Churchill, as Sea Lord for the British, conceived a plan: smash through the Dardanelles, reopen the Straits to Russia, and immobilize the Turks. On the night of March 18, 1915, this plan nearly succeeded -- the Turks were virtually beaten. But poor communication left the Allies in the dark, allowing the Turks to prevail and the Allies to suffer a crushing quarter-million casualties. A vivid chronicle of adventure, suspense, agony, and heroism, Gallipoli brings fully to life the tragic waste in human life, the physical horror, and the sheer heartbreaking folly of fighting for impossible objectives with inadequate means on unknown, unmapped terrain. ER -