Gallipoli

Военная история, Военная проза

Автор: Moorehead Alan

Язык: английский

Год: 2007

Страниц: 96

Издатель: Rockport Publishers

ISBN: 9781781314852

Статус: Закончена

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Аннотация

A century has now gone by, yet the Gallipoli campaign of 1915-16 is still infamous as arguably the most ill conceived, badly led and pointless campaign of the entire First World War. The brainchild of Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, following Turkey’s entry into the war on the German side, its ultimate objective was to capture the Gallipoli peninsula in western Turkey, thus allowing the Allies to take control of the eastern Mediterranean and increase pressure on the Central Powers to drain manpower from the vital Western Front.