Publisher's Synopsis
Bestselling author Peter Hart returns with the definitive account of the Gallipoli Evacuation. The evacuation of Gallipoli was a life-or-death gamble. The expedition to wrest the Dardanelles from the Turks had failed and Constantinople remained an impossible dream. Now in December 1915, 135,000 men, 400 guns and 15,000 horses were trapped in the bridgeheads at Anzac, Suvla and Helles. With every day that passed the Turks moved up more heavy guns, threatening to smash the rough trenches where the Allies had lived and died for nine months. At any moment Turkish troops could swarm across No Man's Land to engulf the beleaguered garrison. And winter was coming. Was it possible to retreat from such an exposed and narrow foothold, right under the noses of the enemy? With disaster looming and hope
