Description
Product ID: | 9780553815061 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Gallipoli |
Authors: | Author: L A Carlyon |
Page Count: | 784 |
Subjects: | General and world history, General & world history, European history, First World War, Battles and campaigns, European history, First World War, Battles & campaigns, Turkey, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 'Because it was fought so close to his old home ground, Homer might have seen this war on the Gallipoli Peninsula as an epic. ''Because it was fought so close to his old home ground, Homer might have seen this war on the Gallipoli Peninsula as an epic. Brief by his standards, but essentially heroic. Shakespeare might have seen it as a tragedy with splendid bit-parts for buffoons and brigands and lots of graveyard scenes. Those thigh bones you occasionally see rearing out of the yellow earth of Gully ravine, snapped open so that they look like pumice, belong to a generation of young men who on this peninsula first lost their innocence and then their lives, and maybe something else as well...'' |
Imprint Name: | Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of |
Publisher Name: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2003-10-01 |