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Gallipoli forced the young Winston Churchill from office, established Turkey's iconic founder Mustafa Kemal (better known as \"Ataturk\"), and marked Australia's emergence as a nation in its own right. Drawing on unpublished eyewitness accounts by individuals from all ranks - not only from Britain, Australia and New Zealand, but from Turkey and France as well - Peter Hart weaves first-hand stories into a vivid narrative of the battle and its aftermath. Hart, a historian with the Imperial War Museum and a battlefield tour guide at Gallipoli, provides a vivid, boots-on-the-ground account that brilliantly evokes the confusion of war, the horrors of combat, and the grim courage of the soldiers. He provides an astute, unflinching assessment of the leaders as well. 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