Gallipoli Sports in WWI Over the course of four

Over the course of four years

from conscription to its aftermath

Drawing on firsthand accounts and detailed archival research

It was a period of both bitter disillusionment and visionary progress

Gallipoli Sports in WWI Over the course of fourDescription by Peter Hart Paperback One of the most famous battles in history, the WWI Gallipoli campaign began as a bold move by the British to capture Constantinople, but this definitive new history explains that from the initial landings which ended with so much blood in the sea it could be seen from airplanes overhead to the desperate attacks of early summer and the battle of attrition that followed, it was a tragic folly destined to fail from the