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“bernard de broglio”

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  • Gallipoli Diary 1915

    by Alec Riley ...
    "We had a look around, through periscopes, at the remains of recent fighting. The dead were on top, and we, the living, were below the general ground-level. The usual order of life and death were reversed."So wrote Alec Riley in his account of an ordinary soldier in an extraordinary conflict, the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915.A signaller with the 42nd (East Lancashire) Division, Riley was well placed ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Mudros, 1915

    Two French nurses with the Army of the East

    by Jeanne Antelme, Elisabeth Jardin ...
    Translated by Bernard de Broglio ...
    Two French women who served as nurses on the island of Lemnos during the Dardanelles campaign of 1915 left written accounts of their experience. One was a published author who volunteered with the Red Cross. The other was a medical student who would submit her wartime experiences as a doctoral thesis. Neither account has previously been available in English.Jeanne Antelme arrived at the port of ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • Egypt Diary 1914-1915

    by Alec Riley ...
    "From a ground-floor room at the end of one block shone a light. It came from a canteen. I saw others were busy while I was lowering a pint of shandy. I was so dry that I could not taste it-I could only just feel it. We felt better. Where there was beer there was hope."Alec Riley was a signaller in the British Army's 42nd (East Lancashire) Division. Egypt Diary 1914-1915 tells of the mobilisation ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • Netley Diary 1915-1916

    by Alec Riley ...
    "I was after all the experiences I could collect, and wanted to know what a great military hospital was like ... I had to go to one, and decided on the grand style of doing it."Corporal Alec Riley was a signaller in the British Army's 42nd (East Lancashire) Division who served at Gallipoli in 1915. Four months on the peninsula left him debilitated, suffering nine septic sores and no less than four ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • Letters from Helles

    The uncensored correspondence of a battalion commander at Gallipoli

    by Henry C Darlington ...
    Written in 1915 while leading the 1/5th Manchester Regiment, Colonel Sir Henry Darlington's letters from Gallipoli are a commanding officer's firsthand account of leadership and endurance at Helles.Long considered one of the most valuable firsthand accounts of the Gallipoli campaign, original copies have become increasingly scarce since the publisher's remaining stock was destroyed during the ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

  • Lost Endeavour

    A survivor's account of the ill-fated Gallipoli Campaign

    by Charles Watkins ...
    Charles Watkins sailed for the Dardanelles with the 1/6th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers in 1915. War, he said, was a welcome escape from hard labour in a Lancashire cotton mill. Fifty years later, he wrote his memoir, a 'hotch-potch of Gallipoli memories.'"In perpetrating this literary outrage, some apology is due. I could give many plausible excuses for recording moments of this disastrous ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • In Chanak with the British Army

    Some impressions

    by Z ...
    In 1922, war between Turkey and Britain was but hours away. A resistance army led by Mustafa Kemal had swept the Greeks from Anatolia and was now ready to march north to Constantinople and liberate the capital. But in its way stood a small British garrison at the Dardanelles.This affectionate account of the British Army at Chanak was written by a peripatetic Englishman, Percival James Bothwell, ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

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  • Field Of Bones

    The Gallipoli Campaign

    by Philip Orr ...
    During August and September 1915 almost three thousand young volunteer Irish soldiers died on the killing fields of Gallipoli on the Turkish Aegean. A division of Kitchener's Army, at Suvla Bay they fell to gunshot-wounds and shellfire, while thirst, sunstroke and dysentery reduced their chances of survival. Hundreds were burned alive in raging bush-fires. In post-war Ireland political revolution ... Read more

    $11.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Suvla

    August Offensive

    by Stephen Chambers ...
    Series series Battleground Gallipoli
    **"Another in the fantastic Battleground series of Great War histories combined with battlefield guides . . . with a good narrative and personal accounts." —**The Great War MagazineThe landing at Suvla Bay, part of the August Offensive, commenced on the night of 6 August 1915. It was intended to support a breakout from Anzac Beach. Despite early hopes from a largely unopposed landing, Suvla was a ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 6th Battalion, The Manchester Regiment in the Great War

    by John Hartley ...
    The 6th Battalion, The Manchester Regiment, was a prewar Territorial unit. Many of its members held white collar positions employed by the Citys legal, financial and stockbroking practices or worked for the major commercial organizations trading and manufacturing cotton goods. It went overseas in September 1914, taking with it many new recruits who would undertake their basic training whilst the ... Read more

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  • Anzac–The Landing

    Gallipoli

    by Stephen Chambers ...
    Series series Battleground Gallipoli
    The Anzac legend was born on the shores of Gallipoli during the historic morning of 25th April 1915. Landing on a hostile beach, under the cover of darkness, the Anzacs moved inland rapidly, but the response of the Ottoman forces was equally quick. The outcome of the campaign was arguably sealed during the first day, when the door for an Anzac victory was closed. With the order to dig, dig, dig ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Prayer for Gallipoli

    The Great War Diaries of Chaplain Kenneth Best

    Edited by Gavin Roynon ...
    Many chaplains were not permitted to go near the Front in the First World War - others insisted on doing so, like Kenneth Best in the Gallipoli Campaign. Best had no military training before the war but he felt that he could only fulfil his pastoral role by getting close to the front line and working with the troops under fire.Best was attached to the 42nd East Lancastrians - the first Territorial ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD