Gallipoli: Great Battles Series, by Jenny Macleod
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The British-led Mediterranean Expeditionary Force that attacked the Ottoman Empire at Gallipoli in 1915 was a multi-national affair, including Australian, New Zealand, Irish, French, and Indian soldiers. Ultimately a failure, the campaign ended with the withdrawal of the Allied forces after less than nine months and the unexpected victory of the Ottoman armies and their German allies.In Britain, the campaign led to the removal of Churchill from his post as First Lord of the Admiralty and the abandonment of the plan to attack Germany via its 'soft underbelly' in the East. Thereafter, it was largely forgotten on a national level, commemorated only in specific localities linked to the campaign. In post-war Turkey, by contrast, the memory of Gallipoli played an important role in the formation of a Turkish national identity, celebrating both the ordinary soldier and the genius of the republic's first president, Mustafa Kemal. The campaign served a similarly important formative role in both Australia and New Zealand, where it is commemorated annually on Anzac Day. For the southern Irish, meanwhile, the bitter memory of service for the King in a botched campaign was forgotten for decades. Shaped initially by the imperatives of war-time, and the needs of the grief-stricken and the bereft, the memory of Gallipoli has been re-made time and again over the last century. For the Turks an inspirational victory, for many on the Allied side a glorious and romantic defeat, for others still an episode best forgotten, 'Gallipoli' has meant different things to different people, serving by turns as an occasion of sincere and heartfelt sorrow, an opportunity for separatist and feminist protest, and a formative influence in the forging of national identities.
Gallipoli: Great Battles Series, by Jenny Macleod- Amazon Sales Rank: #1248890 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-01
- Original language: English
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- Dimensions: 5.80" h x .80" w x 8.60" l, 1.04 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 256 pages
Review It is within [a] bleak landscape of defeat that Jenny Macleod finds Gallipoli's lasting importance. The battle, she argues, and the acrimony of its aftermath, would help to birth four new nations an independent Australia, New Zealand, Irish Free State and Kamalist Turkey. Victor Davis Hanson, Times Literary Supplement I strongly recommend Jenny Macleod's brilliant Great Battles: Gallipoli to readers interested in how the memorialisation of battles and campaigns informs our contemporary world. British Journal for Military History
About the Author Jenny Macleod is a Lecturer in 20th Century History at the University of Hull, having previously worked at the University of Edinburgh and King's College, London. A graduate of Edinburgh and Pembroke College, Cambridge. she is the co-founder of the International Society for First World War Studies and an associate editor of its journal, First World War Studies.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Mostly about how Gallipoli has been remembered in the nations involved. Not really an account of the campaign. By lyndonbrecht This is not really a history of an epic battle. Rather, it is a history of the memory of the battle over the century since it took place, and compares the differing importance in differing countries whose soldiers fought there. It's minor in Ireland, because there is nothing to celebrate about an English defeat. It's minor in French memory because the French focus on the Western front. Although not covered, it seems to mean little in India (some of the "British" were soldiers from India). It's celebrated in Turkey both for the victory and because the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal, was an important commander in the battle, and it's most important in Australia and slightly less so in New Zealand. The book considers the meaning of the battle; clearly ANZAC ( Australia-New Zealand Army Corps) Day predominates in the importance and intensity of observance.The intensity of observation is also important. Macleod discusses how the meaning of the day has changed over the years. One obvious change is that as veterans died, the celebration shifted from personal memory to the more abstract. She observes that military history is bound up in national stories. Irish soldiers at Gallipoli were part of another country's story (the civil war following World War 1 has something to do with that). The soldiers on both sides were multicultural. There was a 500 man Zion Mule Corps (Jewish). There were Ghurkas, soldiers from Ceylon. The French contingent included Foreign Legion troops, French, and Africans from French colonies. The British soldiers included Newfoundlanders from Canada. The Turkish troops included an Arab regiment, and some Jewish, Armenian, Kurdish and other soldiers.The book begins with an excellent summary of the battle before it starts discussion of the meaning of the battle in different nations. The discussion of the several national memories of the battle could strike some reader as tedious because it includes local politics, most intense in Australia. Australia's memory of the battle is tied up in some complicated understandings of what it means to be Australian. And says the author, Gallipoli is a pivotal moment in Australian nationalism but in New Zealand it is remembered more as sacrifice for England. I liked the overall discussion of national stories and memory. I'm not sure it fits, really, the concept of a Great Battle series.
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