By bringing past and current modes of travel to bear on how pasts are being reclaimed and transformed, Brad West demonstrates how meaning is never just made but always in the making. Here pilgrimage does not merely represent or reproduce national memories but reflects a cultural disruption that can be generative of new meaningful tropes. The book is an important corrective to the pervasive juxtaposition of the national and the global. Daniel Levy, Stony Brook University Brad West offers a compelling account of how Australian and Turkish identities have been shaped through commemorative visits to the First World War Gallipoli battlefield. In doing so he also offers a fresh look to travel as a symbolically meaningful act of mobility in time and space. Finding Gallipoli is a fascinating window into the touching histories and presents of two distant countries. Esra Ozyurek, University of Cambridge Finding Gallipoli is an erudite and original inquiry into social memory. By seeing Gallipoli commemoration in both countries through the lens of travel, West breaks new ground in our understanding of the whole business of Anzackery.

Richard White, University of Sydney In Finding Gallipoli , Brad West offers an authoritative account of the remembrance of the Battle of Gallipoli by Australian and Turkish citizens from World War I to the present. His comparative analysis offers important insights into the politics of memory in each country, and brilliantly demonstrates that their commemoration practices are deeply intertwined. The result is a highly original work that is a must-read for anyone interested in ritual, travel, militarism, and social memory. Ates Altinordu, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey.