GALLIPOLI THEN AND NOW

Steve Newman

A magnificent pictorial documentation of the campaign . . . an invaluable record . . .
THE SUNDAY TIMES, NEW ZEALAND

Gallipoli. Virtually unheard of prior to 1915, the very name of the Turkish peninsula bordering the Dardanelles - the narrow waterway linking the Mediterranean with the Black Sea - now conjures up visions of privation and hardship and death which even surpass the horrors of the trench warfare on the Western Front. The barren landscape - of no value itself other than for its command of the seaway - was the backdrop to an horrific campaign between April 1915 and January 1916 in which upwards of 100,000 men lost their lives. For the Allies it was a battle fought in vain for the invasion forces were withdrawn for no gain, but for the Turkish Army it was a marvellous victory in what they refer to as their Canakkale War.

Steve Newman has visited Gallipoli several times in his study of the campaign and he spent a strenuous ten days on the peninsula in June 1999 to take the comparisons in a temperature of over 100 degrees! His dedication in seeking out the precise spots depicted in the contemporary photographs, in spite of heavy undergrowth, thorns, snakes, and the like, can really only be appreciated by those who have visited the battlefield - still unspoiled by modern civilisation, save for the scattered cemeteries and memorials which dot the landscape. Gallipoli Then and Now provides a unique link between past and present; from one century to the next; that the deeds of those whose bones lie buried 'in a foreign field' shall not be forgotten.

ISBN 1 870067 29 0
SIZE 8½"x10½"
232 PAGES
450 ILLUSTRATIONS
£24.95
CODE F046

COMPLETE CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1 - THE ROAD TO GALLIPOLI

CHAPTER 2 - THE LANDINGS -The Anzac Sector

THE HELLES SECTOR -Y Beach -X Beach -W Beach -V Beach -S Beach

CHAPTER 3 - APRIL - AUGUST -Slaughter and stalemate at Anzac - The Three Battles of Krithia at Helles - APRIL 26 - APRIL 27-30 - Anzac Sector - APRIL 27-30 - Helles and The First Battle of Krithia - MAY 2 - The Anzac Attack - MAY 6-8 - Helles: The Second Battle of Krithia - MAY AT ANZAC - Reinforcements and counter-attacks - MAY-JUNE - Consolidation and preparations for the next advance on Krithia - THE THIRD BATTLE OF KRITHIA - JUNE AND JULY - Smaller offensives at Helles - Preparations at Anzac

CHAPTER 4 - NEW ARMY, NEW HOPE, NEW OFFENSIVE, OLD LEADERSHIP - THE PLAN - AUGUST 6-7 - The Reality - AUGUST 8 - Major General Cox's column - AUGUST 8 - Brigadier-General Johnston's attack on - Chunuk Bair - AUGUST 8 - Suvla, Continued Inaction - AUGUST 9-10 - Allanson's Heroes - The Capture and Loss of Hill Q. - AUGUST 9-10 - The Loss of Chunuk Bair - Massacre at the Farm - AUGUST 11-31

CHAPTER 5 - POLITICAL UPHEAVAL, MILITARY STALEMATE

CHAPTER 6 - THE EVACUATION - Sulva and Anzac -Helles

CHAPTER 7 - EPILOGUE

CHAPTER 8 - GALLIPOLI'S GALLANTRY

CHAPTER 9 - A FOOTNOTE TO HISTORY - ALLIED CEMETERIES

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