The National Army Museum Book of the Turkish Front 1914-18 : The Campaigns at Gallipoli, in Mesopotamia and Palestine - Hardcover

Carver, Lord

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9780283073472: The National Army Museum Book of the Turkish Front 1914-18 : The Campaigns at Gallipoli, in Mesopotamia and Palestine

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ISBN 10: 0283073470 ISBN 13: 9780283073472

Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson, 2003

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Most of the books that have been written about this pivotal campaign are only about Gallipoli, and no other has included Palestine, Mesopotamia and the Balkans, too. This is an historically important campaign as the destruction of the Ottoman Empire led to the political turmoil in the Middle East and the Balkans we are living with today. But it also has a big emotional pull. With extracts from the letters, diaries and other papers of those involved, this is a moving and hard-hitting book. Casualties were high, both in action and from disease. The accounts in this book provide a stark reminder of what the soldiers endured.

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Field Marshal Lord Carver held important command and staff appointments, at home and abroad, as Chief of General Staff and, as Field Marshal in 1973, Chief of the Defence Staff. Author of fifteen books and editor of two others, he was created a life peer in 1977. Lord Carver died in 2001.

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