Trenching at Gallipoli: The Personal Narrative of a Newfoundlander with the Ill-Fated Dardanelles Expedition
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (512 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0857065882 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 152 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-14 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
What War Is Really Like Real wartime experience from the major allied failure of WWI. Subtly lays the fault for the many missteps of the British commanders and puts the reader in the trenches, sharing the horror and barbaric conditions with the average soldier.
It is doubly interesting since the author was a member of the First Newfoundlander Regiment. His book therefore offers a unique alternative to the more familiar British and Anzac accounts with which those interested in the period will be familiar. A first hand account of the Dardanelle's expeditionThis book, written by someone who experienced first hand the Gallipoli campaign, is inevitably important as a source work on one of the most notable events of the First World War and will interest all those fascinated by the 'sideshow' theatres of the conflict. Readers should note that John Gallishaw, and one must assume his comrades also , did not consider Newfoundland to be simply a part of Canad