Letters from Gallipoli : New Zealand Soldiers Write Home.

Revealing and often heartbreaking, this collection of letters offers a powerful firsthand account of a pivotal event in New Zealand history: World War I's Gallipoli Campaign in 1915. Grouped in chronological order, the correspondence gathered from archives, newspapers, and family collections?de...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Harper, G. (Glyn)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : Auckland University Press, 2011.
Temas:
1914-1918
World War, 1914-1918 > Personal narratives, New Zealand.
World War, 1914-1918 > Campaigns > Turkey > Gallipoli Peninsula.
Soldiers > New Zealand > Correspondence.
Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 > Campagnes et batailles > Turquie > Gallipoli, Péninsule de.
HISTORY > Military > World War I.
Military campaigns
Soldiers
New Zealand
Turkey > Gallipoli Peninsula
Personal narratives > New Zealand
Personal correspondence
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Revealing and often heartbreaking, this collection of letters offers a powerful firsthand account of a pivotal event in New Zealand history: World War I's Gallipoli Campaign in 1915. Grouped in chronological order, the correspondence gathered from archives, newspapers, and family collections?details the campaign's harrowing conditions and key events, from preparation and landing on the Ottoman peninsula to the December withdrawal. In these epistles, the intense emotions of the men who survived the trenches are made known, whether it be jubilatio.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (541 pages)
ISBN:9781775581116
177558111X

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