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On April 25, 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey to secure the sea route between Britain and France in the west and Russia in the east. After eight months of terrible fighting, they would fail. Turkey regards the victory to this day as a defining moment in its history, a heroic last stand in the defense of the nation's Ottoman Empire. But, counter-intuitively, it would signify something perhaps even greater for the defeated Australians and New Zealanders involved: the birth of their countries' sense of nationhood. Now approaching its centenary, the Gallipoli campaign, commemorated each year on Anzac Day, reverberates with importance as the origin and symbol of Australian and New Zealand identity. As such, the facts of the battle--which was minor against the scale of World War I and cost less than a sixth of the Australian deaths on the Western Front--are often forgotten or obscured. Peter FitzSimons, with his trademark vibrancy and expert melding of writing and research, recreates the disaster as experienced by those who endured it or perished in the attempt.
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Peter FitzSimons is a journalist with the "Sydney Morning Herald" and "Sun-Herald." He is also a regular TV commentator, a former radio presenter (very successfully, with Mike Carlton on Radio 2UE), and is also a former national representative rugby union player. He is the author of over 20 books, including "Tobruk," "Kokoda," "Batavia," and biographies of Nancy Wake' Kim Beazley' Nick Farr-Jones' Les Darcy, Steve Waugh, and John Eales. Earlier this year, Peter was named a Member of the Order of Australia for service to literature as a biographer, sports journalist and commentator, and to the community through contributions to conservation, disability care, social welfare, and sporting organizations.
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Gallipoli by Peter FitzSimons
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William Heinemann, Sydney NSW, 2015
ISBN 10: 0857984578
ISBN 13: 9780857984579
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