There is no shortage of books on the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign of 1915 but this one stands out. In it Geoffrey Moorhouse moves the focus from the more familar aspects to concentrate on one small mill town, Bury, in Lancashire, and to anatomize the long-lasting effect the Dardanelles had on it. Bury was the regimental home of the Lancashire Fusiliers. In the Gallipoli landings of 25 April 1915 it lost a large proportion of its youth. By May 1915, some 7,000 Bury men had already gone to war, to be followed by many others ...
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There is no shortage of books on the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign of 1915 but this one stands out. In it Geoffrey Moorhouse moves the focus from the more familar aspects to concentrate on one small mill town, Bury, in Lancashire, and to anatomize the long-lasting effect the Dardanelles had on it. Bury was the regimental home of the Lancashire Fusiliers. In the Gallipoli landings of 25 April 1915 it lost a large proportion of its youth. By May 1915, some 7,000 Bury men had already gone to war, to be followed by many others before Armistice Day. More than 1,600,from just three local battalions of the Fusiliers were among those who never returned. The regiment left 1,816 dead men on Gallipoli alone: it lost 13,642 soldiers in the Great War as a whole. This terrifying sacrifice left its mark. Bury commemorates Gallipoli on a scale similar to Anzac Day in Australia and New Zealand and yet as the Second World War approached, recruitment to the regiment fell far behind that in other Lancashire towns. 'Hurtles one from rage and cynicism to involvement and tenderness . . . Moorhouse offers one of the most fascinating revelations of the orthodox British spirit, religious, political and social . . . This book makes wonderful reading.' Ronald Blythe, Sunday Times 'A fascinating new approach to this tragedy . . . Moorhouse's contribution (to the bibliography of Gallipoli) is of quite outstanding value.' Robert Rhodes James, The Independent 'A subtle and moving exploration of the way that memories of slaughter and loss shaped the town's post-first world war identity.' Terry Eagleton, New Statesman
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Good in good dust jacket. Outline: -Publisher`s Synopsis Australians New Zealanders Indians the French and the Turks all have reason to remember Gallipoli but in this book the author concentrates on its bitter effects on the small mill town of Bury in Lancashire which sacrificed 1600 men a large proportion of its youth in the campaign. The "Six VCs Before Breakfast" won by the Fusiliers in the Dardanelles were no author shows how the memory of Gallipoli has been revered and glorified in the town ever since especially in a public commemoration comparable to Anzac Day on the other side of the world. Yet deep in the local psyche the scars refused to heal. Why else did recruitment to the regiment fall far behind that in other Lancashire towns in the approach to World War II? ; Geoffrey Moorhouse himself a Lancastrian whose grandfather served in the Lancashire Fusiliers at Gallipoli offers a study of war and its effect. -> the publisher of this HARDBACK book is Hodder & Stoughton The date of this copy is 1992 booksalvation have grade it as Good and it will be shipped from our UK warehouse This book is from the Series. Shipping is Free for UK buyers and at a reasonable charge for buyer outside the UK.
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1992. Hodder & Stoughton. First. Hard Cover. Book-VG+. DJ-VG+, protective covered. 9.5x6.5. 256pp. 20 b/w photos, endpaper maps. Australians, New Zealanders, Indians, the French and the Turks all have reason to remember the haunting agony of Gallipoli, but this book concentrates on the effect Gallipoli has had for nearly a century on a small mill town in Lancashire. In the Gallipoli landings of April 1925, 1915, and in the months that followed, the town of Bury lost a large proportion of its youth. Moorhouse shows how the memory of Gallipoli has been revered and glorified in the town ever since, yet how, deep in the local psyche, the scars refused to heal.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 9780340430446. Size: 9"-10" Tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Military & Warfare; ISBN: 0340430443. ISBN/EAN: 9780340430446. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 34811.
