Description: GALLIPOLI L.A. CARLYON 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. Gallipoli remains one of the most poignant battlefronts of World War I and L.A. Carlyon's account of that campaign brings this epic tragedy to life and stands as both a landmark chapter in the history of the war and a salutary reminder of all that is fine and all that is foolish in the human condition. NEW, THE BOOK IN THE PHOTO IS THE BOOK YOU WILL RECEIVE.
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Item Height: 198mm
Item Width: 127mm
Author: L a Carlyon
Publication Name: Gallipoli
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: TransWorld LTD
Subject: History
Publication Year: 2003
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 525g
Number of Pages: 784 Pages
