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Patrick Gariepy . . . presents a detailed history of an underappreciated major military campaign doomed from the start, offering a prime model of costly disaster resulting from a bad plan poorly executed. --William D./I>--William D. Bushnell Military Officer -Patrick Gariepy . . . presents a detailed history of an underappreciated major military campaign doomed from the start, offering a prime model of costly disaster resulting from a bad plan poorly executed.---William D./I>--William D. Bushnell -Military Officer -

...we have here yet another book on the campaign of 1915, a book that deserves a place on every members bookshelves. Not just for the history so brilliantly described but as a tribute to those who served and toiled and often died on the Peninsula, whose stories are for the most part never heard. Also as an inspiration to readers, that they might too be encouraged to research their own local Gallipoli casualties from almost a century ago. * The Gallipoli Association 20/01/2015 * I do not hesitate to recommend it. The author has found a very simple way to tell a complicated story with a great deal of style * War History Online 25/03/2015 *

"...we have here yet another book on the campaign of 1915, a book that deserves a place on every members bookshelves. Not just for the history so brilliantly described but as a tribute to those who served and toiled and often died on the Peninsula, whose stories are for the most part never heard. Also as an inspiration to readers, that they might too be encouraged to research their own local Gallipoli casualties from almost a century ago. * The Gallipoli Association 20/01/2015 * Examining the human side of one of the greatest tragedies of modern warfare, Gariepy pieces together the battles of the Gallipoli Campaign in the combatants"" own words. * Military History Monthly * I do not hesitate to recommend it. The author has found a very simple way to tell a complicated story with a great deal of style * War History Online 25/03/2015 *"

Patrick Gariepy . . . presents a detailed history of an underappreciated major military campaign doomed from the start, offering a prime model of costly disaster resulting from a bad plan poorly executed. --William D./i>--William D. Bushnell Military Officer

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PATRICK GARIEPY (1963–2012) served in the U.S. Army in Military Intelligence and as a German interpreter. He spent twenty-six years gathering information from families of men who had died at Gallipoli, as well as from numerous archives. His work has been featured on National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition and on television and radio programs across the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.

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