The Landing in the Dawn. Dissecting a Legend - the Landing at ANZAC, Gallipoli, 25 April 1915 - Hurst, James

Dissecting a Legend - The Landing at Anzac, Gallipoli, 25 April 1915

KORTE INHOUD

The Gallipoli Landing of 25 April 1915 is arguably Australia's best known battle. It is commemorated each year with a national holiday, services, parades and great media attention. 2015, the centenary of the Gallipoli Campaign, was marked by great publicity and the release of many books, articles, films, documentaries and television series. Despite this attention, the Landing is still a poorly understood battle, with the historiography colored by a century of misinformation, assumption, folklore and legend. The Landing in the Dawn: Dissecting a Legend - The Landing at Anzac, Gallipoli, 25 April 1915, reexamines and reconstructs the Anzac Landing by applying a new approach to an old topic - it uses the aggregate experience of a single, first-wave battalion over a single day, primarily through the investigation of veteran's letters and diaries, to create a body of evidence with which to construct a history of the battle. This approach might be expected to shed light on these men's experiences only, but their ac... Lees verder...

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2018Uitgever: Helion & Company264 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 1911512463ISBN-13: 9781911512462

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