Gallipoli: Essential History

World War One parades a grim roll-call of military disasters, but few still resonate as much today as Gallipoli. Ambitious from the outset, it promised much but delivered one of the most punishing setbacks of the whole conflict for the Allies. Within the grand scale of the overall drama, however, are the individual tales of heroism and tragedy: the lives and deaths of the men who fought on both sides on that hot, dusty, bitterly contested peninsula in Turkey. The campaign saw hundreds of th...