Gardens of Hell: Battles of the Gallipoli Campaign (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781612346830)

Gardens of Hell examines the human side of one of the great tragedies of modern warfare, the Gallipoli campaign of the First World War. In February 1915, beginning with a naval attack on Turkey in the Dardanelles, a combined force of British, Australian, New Zealand, Indian, and French troops invaded the Gallipoli Peninsula only to face crushing losses and an ignominious retreat from what seemed a hopeless mission. Both sides in the battle suffered huge casualties, with a combined 127,000 servicemen killed during the action.

Patrick Gariepy has pieced together the battle from combatants' own words. Drawn from diaries and letters and from stories passed down through generations of families, these firsthand accounts offer an honest, heartfelt, and sometimes painful testimony to a doomed campaign fought by the men who lived through the fury, terror, and grief that was Gallipoli. Gardens of Hell is a sensitive acknowledgment of the enormous human cost of military folly and failure.


Author: Patrick Gariepy
ISBN-10: 1612346839
ISBN-13: 9781612346830
Publisher: Potomac Books
Language: English
Published: 05/15/2014
Pages: 392
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.58lbs
Size: 9.37h x 6.37w x 1.31d