Nigel Steel - Battleground Gallipoli

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Battleground Europe

GALLIPOLI

Nigel Steel

Pen & Sword

MILITARY

This book is dedicated with respect and admiration to three late
friends who told me how it felt to be at Gallipoli over eighty years

ago.

To
Lieutenant-Colonel Malcolm Hancock MC
Ivor Powell
and
William Wright

First published in Great Britain in 1999
Reprinted in 2007 by
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Copyright Nigel Steel, 1999, 2007

ISBN 978 0 85052 669 1

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION BY
SERIES EDITOR

It has been a long time coming, but it is a real pleasure to be able to write an introduction to this book, a completely revised and updated version of Nigel Steels earlier book. The Battlefields of Gallipoli Then and Now. It is anticipated that this will be the first of a number of guides on that ill-fated expeditions battlefield; it sets the scene for the heroism and stoic endurance that stretched through the spring, summer, autumn and early days of winter 1915.

The writing shows a profound knowledge of the campaign, of the battles and of the ground today, accompanied with a love of the landscape and a considerable empathy with those who were there. Alas, it is soon coming to the time when there will be no veterans of the campaign alive; books like this are all the more important as they attempt to explain what happened on the ground. And it is best if those who were there are allowed to speak for themselves, and Nigel Steel here makes good use of the various oral and documentary records that survive. History can become a plaything of societies and propagandists, so that we have come to a situation in which most people think this was an Australian campaign. Most certainly it was vitally important to that nations development and it helped to bring it out onto the world stage. But this has overshadowed the contribution of others, notably the Newfoundlanders, the New Zealanders and the British (and, indeed, the Irish) and, perhaps, above all, the French.

Turkish prisoners of war being led down from the line by British troops in Gully Ravine. (Q15337)

Nigel Steels route through Gallipoli is in many ways a highly personal one his descriptions of what can be seen come quite definitely from his heart. The narrative of events is cogent and well explained, put carefully into the context of the ground and of that most redoubtable and tenacious of foes, the Turk. By the time that the reader has finished the book even if he or she has not been to this sad but beautiful place the impact of the tragedy of Gallipoli will be that much clearer. I do not think that a military historian can be asked to achieve more.

Nigel Cave,

Ely Place, London

Since The Battlefields of Gallipoli Then and Now was first published by Leo Cooper in 1990 I have been helped by a great many people and I am concerned that I have forgotten to include some of them here. I hope they will forgive me. As my debt to those who assisted me in the years between 1985 and 1990 remains undiminished, I felt it best to incorporate these new names into my original list and so with these additions it is reproduced again here.