A Prayer for Gallipoli (ePub)
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Best was attached to the 42nd East Lancastrians - the first Territorial Army Division to serve overseas in the conflict, so arguably the least experienced in the ways of war. In his diary we follow his progress through his initial training in Egypt and on to his arrival in Gallipoli in May 1915.
Gallipoli has become notorious, even by the standards of the First World War. After a naval campaign to open up a supply route to Russia through Turkey failed, some 480,000 Allied troops were drawn into a land invasion in which hundreds of thousands were injured or killed. In his diary, Best records his efforts to encourage frightened men before they go over the top, to comfort the wounded and, when the fighting stops, to bury the dead. His empathy for the troops is matched by a forthright disgust for their leaders, few of whom share his insight into the horrific realities of trench warfare.
Gavin Roynon served as a National Service Officer with the 13th/18th Royal Hussars during the Cold War and then read Modern Languages at Oxford. He went on to teach French, German and History at Eton College. He and his wife have five children and live in Berkshire. His previous books include Ypres Diary: The Memoirs of Sir Morgan Crofton; Home Fires Burning: The Great War Diaries of Georgina Lee, and Massacre of the Innocents (all History Press). He and his wife have five children and live in Berkshire.
- 2011, 272 Seiten, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Gavin Roynon
- Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
- ISBN-10: 085720226X
- ISBN-13: 9780857202260
- Erscheinungsdatum: 15.09.2011
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