Images of Gallipoli
The 150 photographs in this extraordinary book have been drawn from a newly discovered collection, to tell the story of the Gallipoli campaign. They show how the British and Australians prepared for the fighting; how they arrived and set up camp; how they spent their leisure; what the dugouts and trenches were like; scenes of comradeship; scenes of dreariness and of men waiting to go into action; scenes of the humiliation of retreat; scenes of manoeuvres and seaplanes; scenes of officers maintaining standards with armchairs and tables cloths in the trenches, and much more besides. Military historians and collectors, World War I veterans, UK Gallipoli Association, Imperial War Museum, social historians, and students.
The 150 photographs in this extraordinary book have been drawn from a newly discovered collection, to tell the story of the Gallipoli campaign. They show how the British and Australians prepared for the fighting; how they arrived and set up camp; how they spent their leisure; what the dugouts and trenches were like; scenes of comradeship; scenes of dreariness and of men waiting to go into action; scenes of the humiliation of retreat; scenes of manoeuvres and seaplanes; scenes of officers maintaining standards with armchairs and tables cloths in the trenches, and much more besides. Military historians and collectors, World War I veterans, UK Gallipoli Association, Imperial War Museum, social historians, and students.
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The 150 photographs in this extraordinary book have been drawn from a newly discovered collection, to tell the story of the Gallipoli campaign. They show how the British and Australians prepared for the fighting; how they arrived and set up camp; how they spent their leisure; what the dugouts and trenches were like; scenes of comradeship; scenes of dreariness and of men waiting to go into action; scenes of the humiliation of retreat; scenes of manoeuvres and seaplanes; scenes of officers maintaining standards with armchairs and tables cloths in the trenches, and much more besides. Military historians and collectors, World War I veterans, UK Gallipoli Association, Imperial War Museum, social historians, and students.
