Gallipoli Diary. Volume 2 |
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| Author:
| Hamilton, Ian |
| Series title: | Barnes and Noble Digital Library |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4114-4727-1 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2011 |
| Publisher: | Barnes & Noble, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $1.99 |
Book Description:
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Picking up from Volume I in July 1915, this unusually outspoken and meticulously detailed diary, backed up with official dispatches, sets out Hamilton's defense of his conduct in the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign. Hamilton pulls no punches in his portrait of a military hierarchy shot through with incompetence--despite his own position at its apex. In his introduction he states, "There is nothing certain about war except...
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Picking up from Volume I in July 1915, this unusually outspoken and meticulously detailed diary, backed up with official dispatches, sets out Hamilton's defense of his conduct in the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign. Hamilton pulls no punches in his portrait of a military hierarchy shot through with incompetence--despite his own position at its apex. In his introduction he states, "There is nothing certain about war except that one side won't win."