Who was the enemy?
Bernard Porter: Gallipoli, 21 May 2015
Gallipoli: A Soldier’s Story
by Arthur Beecroft.
Robert Hale, 176 pp., £12.99, March 2015,978 0 7198 1654 3 Show More
by Arthur Beecroft.
Robert Hale, 176 pp., £12.99, March 2015,
Gallipoli 1915
by Joseph Murray.
Silvertail, 210 pp., £12.99, April 2015,978 1 909269 11 8 Show More
by Joseph Murray.
Silvertail, 210 pp., £12.99, April 2015,
Gallipoli: The Dardanelles Disaster in Soldiers’ Words and Photographs
by Richard van Emden and Stephen Chambers.
Bloomsbury, 344 pp., £25, March 2015,978 1 4088 5615 4 Show More
by Richard van Emden and Stephen Chambers.
Bloomsbury, 344 pp., £25, March 2015,
“... and reissued for the centenary. Appearing for the first time is an account written in the 1930s by Arthur Beecroft of the Royal Engineers for his son Bobby, to counteract the pacifist revisionism that he thought was painting him (like all his comrades-in-arms) as ‘a poor bemused fool who was led blindfold to the slaughter, and who had not the gumption ... ”
