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The other trenches: the Dardanelles, 100 years on

Reviews of Gallipoli by Richard van Emden and Stephen Chambers, and a new edition of Alan Moorehead’s landmark work of the same name

4 April 2015

9:00 AM

4 April 2015

9:00 AM

Gallipoli: The Dardanelles Disaster in Soldiers’ Words and Photographs Richard van Emden and Stephen Chambers

Bloomsbury, pp.352, £25, ISBN: 9781408856154

Gallipoli Alan Moorehead

Atlantic, pp.384, £25, ISBN: 9781781314067

In August 1915, in his tent at GHQ on the Aegean island of Imbros, General Sir Ian Hamilton, commander-in-chief of the Gallipoli expedition, woke from a dream in which someone was attempting to drown him in the Hellespont. ‘For hours afterwards,’ he wrote in his diary, ‘I was haunted by the thought that the Dardanelles were fatal: that something sinister was afoot: that we, all of us, were pre-doomed.’

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'Gallipoli: The Dardanelles Disaster in Soldiers’ Words and Photographs', £20 and 'Gallipoli', £20 are available from the Spectator Bookshop, Tel: 08430 600033. Peter Parker is the author of The Old Lie: The Great War and the Public-School Ethos.

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