| Description |
xxii, 226 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Foreword -- Note on style -- Maps -- Photographs -- Prologue: Tuggeranong Homestead, 1922 -- Introduction: 'Key of the Anzac position' -- 'The fatal power of a young enthusiasm': the men of 1914 and the Dardanelles -- 'The most critical position': the creation of Quinn's post -- 'The defence of Anzac': holding Quinn's in May -- 'Some uneasiness at Quinn's: two attacks and a truce -- 'The Turks break into Quinn's: climax on 29 May -- 'Several minor operations': the New Zealand sorties in June -- 'If he had had roses...': the transformation of Quinn's -- 'No turning and no escape': mid-summer at Quinn's -- 'Men devoted to die': the August offensive -- 'Serious offensive action underground': autumn at Anzac -- 'Hillsides abandoned to the enemy': the evacuation of Anzac -- 'Anzac now belonged to the past': looking back on Quinn's Post |
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'An unbroken stillness': Quinn's today -- Epilogue |
| Summary |
Quinn's Post was on the front-line at Gallipoli in 1915 and, in the words of one general, 'our most dangerous and difficult post.' Here the Allied and Turkish lines faced each other, not quite parallel, with a gap ten yards wide in one place and 40 yards in another |
| Analysis |
World War 1 |
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Gallipoli |
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Australian Army |
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New Zealand |
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Armies |
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Land warfare |
| Notes |
Library's N copy signed by author. ANL |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 201-219 |
| Subject |
Great Britain. Army. Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, New Zealand
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, British.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Australian.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Turkey -- Gallipoli Peninsula.
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| SUBJECT |
Gallipoli Peninsula (Turkey) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85052846 -- History, Military.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005863
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| Genre/Form |
Military history.
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| ISBN |
1741143322 : |
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