Gallipoli

Send us Fan Mail In April 1915, thousands of young Australians and New Zealanders approached an unfamiliar Turkish coastline in small boats. Most had never been under fire. Within hours, a new word would enter history: ANZAC. Gallipoli was supposed to be a bold shortcut to victory, a way through the Dardanelles to Constantinople and Russia. Instead, it became eight months of slaughter, disease, impossible terrain and extraordinary courage. This is the story of the men who landed at ANZAC Cove, the Ottoman soldiers who stopped them, Mustafa Kemal’s remarkable rise, the disastrous decisions that prolonged the campaign, and the evacuation that became its most successful operation. But Gallipoli is more than the story of a military defeat. For Australia and New Zealand, it became part of a national identity. For Turkey, it helped create the legend of the man who would become Atatürk. One battle. Three nations. And a story that, more than a century later, is still remembered before dawn on a small beach in Turkey. Support the show For books written and published by Keith Hocton www.entrepotpublishing.com