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Gallipoli
Released the same day as the standard print edition
Title:
Gallipoli
Written by:
Peter FitzSimons 
Read by:
Robert Meldrum 
Format:
Unabridged CD Audio Book 
Number of CDs:
21 
Duration:
25 hours 56 minutes 
Published:
November 03 2014 
Available Date:
November 03 2014 
Age Category:
Adult 
ISBN:
9781486243327 
Genres:
Non-fiction; Australian; History; World War I 
Publisher:
ABC Audio 
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Australia's biggest-selling non-fiction author brings his prodigious storytelling talents to bear on one of the defining (and most disastrous) campaigns of the First World War: Gallipoli.

On 25 April 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey to secure the sea route between Britain and France in the west and Russia in the east. After eight months of terrible fighting, they would fail. Turkey regards the victory to this day as a defining moment in its history, a heroic last stand in the defence of the nation's Ottoman Empire. But, counter-intuitively, it would signify something perhaps even greater for the defeated Australians and New Zealanders involved: the birth of their countries' sense of nationhood. Now approaching its centenary, the Gallipoli campaign, commemorated each year on Anzac Day, reverberates with importance as the origin and symbol of Australian and New Zealand identity. As such, the facts of the battle – which was minor against the scale of the First World War and cost less than a sixth of the Australian deaths on the Western Front – are often forgotten or obscured. Peter FitzSimons, with his trademark vibrancy and expert melding of writing and research, recreates the disaster as experienced by those who endured it or perished in the attempt.