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The Norfolks at Gallipoli 12 August 1915 : Truth and Myth
The Norfolks at Gallipoli 12 August 1915 : Truth and Myth
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Author(s): Smith, Steve
ISBN No.: 9781804200537
Pages: 176
Year: 202602
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 55.13
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available (Forthcoming)

On 12 August 1915 the 1/5th Battalion Norfolks advanced on Kuchuk Anafarta Ova on the Suvla Plain at Gallipoli. They never returned. An official report stated they had been 'lost to sight and sound'.Using previously unseen records, photographs, diaries, accounts and letters, Steve Smith has conducted the first thorough investigation into what truly happened at Kuchuk Anafarta Ova on 12 August 1915. His research has led him to Turkish archives, where he has uncovered accounts of troops who faced the advancing 1/5th Battalion--accounts that debunk the myth of a mass slaughter in cold blood. To substantiate the written sources, Smith has combed the battlefield on foot, charting the course of the day's events in a series of new maps.The Norfolks at Gallipoli 12 August 1915: Truth and Myth is the definitive account of what became of the 16 officers and 250 men of the 1/5th Battalion who climbed over the parapet on that fateful day. It is also a battlefield guide for those who want to explore, down at trench level, the ground on which this extraordinary episode of the Gallipoli campaign took place.



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