Gallipoli - Hardcover

FitzSimons, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0593074904 ISBN 13: 9780593074909

Verlag: Bantam Press, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

Australia's biggest-selling non-fiction author brings his prodigious storytelling talents to bear on one of the defining (and most disastrous) campaigns of the First World War: Gallipoli.

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PETER FITZSIMONS is journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald and Sun-Herald and a television presenter and reporter. He speaks four languages, used to play rugby for Australia while the individuals he has interviewed range from George Bush and Sir Edmund Hillary to Jamie Oliver, Jodie Foster and Diego Maradona. He is also Australia’s biggest-selling non-fiction author of the last decade. His books include Kokoda, Tobruk, Batavia and most recently, Ned Kelly.He lives with his wife, 'Today Show' co-host Lisa Wilkinson, and their three children in Sydney.

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On 25 April 1915, Allied forces – British and French, as well as Australian and New Zealand – began landing on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey. Their objective was 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.

To this day, Turkey regards its victory as a defining moment in its history, a heroic last stand in the defence 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 on the cusp of its centenary, the Gallipoli campaign (commemorated each year on Anzac Day) resonates with importance as the origin and symbol of Australian and New Zealand identity. As such, the facts of the battle – which was relatively minor when measured against the overall scale of the First World War (it accounted for less than a sixth of the Australian deaths on the Western Front) – are often forgotten or obscured.

With his trademark vibrancy and expert melding of writing and research, one of Australia’s bestselling authors, journalist Peter FitzSimons, recreates the disastrous campaign as experienced by those who endured it or perished in the attempt.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bantam Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0593074904
• ISBN 13: 9780593074909
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 848
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