Başlık:
Fatal charge at Gallipoli : the story of one of the bravest, and most futile, actions of the Dardanelles Campaign : the Light Horse at the Nek, August 1915
Yazar:
Hamilton, John, 1940- author.
ISBN:
9781848329027
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Tek Biçim Başlık:
Goodbye cobber, God bless you
Fiziksel Tanımlama:
xix, 280 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Genel Not:
"First published as Goodbye cobber, God bless you, by Pan MacMillan, Australia Pty Ltd., 2004"--Title page verso.
İçerik:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Map of Anzac positions, Gallipoli Peninsula 1915; The Hill of Valour; Chapter 1: The Coming of War; Chapter 2: Bugle Calls; Chapter 3: The Boys from Berry Bank; Chapter 4: Sound 'Boots and Saddles'; Chapter 5: The Father of the Regiment, Uncle Fred and the Bullant; Chapter 6: The Best-Loved Man in the Regiment; Chapter 7: Sailing into the Unknown; Chapter 8: Sand and Pharaohs; Chapter 9: Blood and Trumpets; Chapter 10: A Sharpening of Bayonets; Chapter 11: Face Off; Chapter 12: Hell on the Heights; Chapter 13: 'Out of Our Trenches -- Out for Good!' Chapter 14: 'Damn it! I'll lead my regiment'Chapter 15: Nothing But Bloody Murder; Chapter 16: Afterwards; Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Index Armed only with rifles, bayonets and raw courage, the men of the 3rd Light Horse Brigade left the shelter of their rocky trenches to storm The Nek, a narrow stretch of ridge held by the Ottoman Turks. The first wave of attackers were cut down almost as soon as they stood up. Those that followed knew they were going to die. Yet they too charged without question, stumbling over the bodies of their fallen comrades before they also fell.
Özet:
Armed only with rifles, bayonets and raw courage, the men of the 3rd Light Horse Brigade left the shelter of their rocky trenches to storm the Nek, a narrow stretch of ridge held by the Ottoman Turks. The first wave of attackers were cut down almost as soon as they stood up. Those that followed knew they were going to die. Yet they too charged without question, stumbling over the bodies of their fallen comrades before they also fell. The commander of the 10th Light Horse Regiment attempted to have the third wave cancelled, but he could not convince the Brigade Major. Using the letters and diaries of those who fought and died, John Hamilton takes the reader on a journey from the rush to recruit in August 1914 when war was declared, through the training camps to the unforgiving terrain of Gallipoli and the unbending Turkish defenders, and finally to that fateful morning and that fatal charge.
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