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 vanEmden and Stephen Chambers.
Bloomsbury, 344 pp., £25, March 2015,978 1 4088 5615 4 Show More
by Richard vanEmden and Stephen Chambers.
Bloomsbury, 344 pp., £25, March 2015,
“... a jack-knife (‘Tubby thanked me a thousand times’). Then there is the splendid book edited by Richard vanEmden and Stephen Chambers, which consists mainly of soldiers’ and sailors’ letters and diaries, British, Anzac and Turkish – no French or Indian, apart from a couple of Indian officers in the British ... ”