Publisher’s Description:’First published in 1956, Alan Moorehead’s book is still regarded as the definitive work on this tragic episode of the Great War. One could argue he was the first writer to capture the true turmoil that occurred in this campaign with his colourful, analytical and compelling style of prose.’
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Publisher’s Description:’Eugene Rogan’s remarkable new book recreates one of the most important but poorly understood fronts of the First World War. Despite fighting back with great skill and ferocity against the Allied onslaught, the Ottomans were ultimately defeated, clearing the way for the making, for better or worse, of a new Middle East which has endured to the present.
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The school project, ‘Two Trenches, One Letter’, aims to educate students about the Gallipoli campaign and to promote the understanding of shared sacrifice between Turkish and Anzac families.
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The Royal Air Force Museum has been awarded a £2.5 million grant to support its programme of centenary events.
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An article in the UK's Spectator magazine challenges the legacy of the "Armenian genocide" in both Armenian and Turkish history.
Continue readingSix British soldiers, killed in action in October 1914, are to be reburied at Prowse Point military cemetery in Belgium on April 16th 2015.
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Six British soldiers who died in the opening weeks of the First World War have been reburied with full military honours in Belgium
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The European Parliament has entered the latest diplomatic row over the mass killings of Armenians during the First World War, calling on Turkey to recognise them as genocide.
Continue readingThe New Zealand capital, Wellington, hosts a week of commemorations to mark the Centenary of the Gallipoli landings from April 18th 2015.
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A New Zealand historian is asking for the public’s help in identifying a Newfoundland soldier in the run up to the Gallipoli anniversary.
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