Chris Mackie has received funding from the Department of Veterans Affairs for research work on the Gallipoli Peninsula (Joint Historical and Archaeological Survey, 2010-2014). There are few ...
On April 25, 1915, when British, French, and Australian and New Zealand troops landed on the strategic Gallipoli Peninsula, their objective was to knock out Ottoman defenses and make way for Allied ...
ISTANBULISTANBUL — The World War I battlefield of the Gallipoli campaign, where throngs gather each April to remember the fallen, is a place of lore, an echo of ancient warfare that took place on the ...
One hundred years ago, the world entered a war of unprecedented historical scale — the Great War. Many nations were deeply affected, and its consequences are still felt around the globe. Among the ...
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's plans for a showcase centenary celebration of the Gallipoli campaign suffered a major setback on yesterday night when the German president Joachim Gauck joined forces ...
In the Junius Pamphlet, composed while she was in prison in 1915, Polish-born revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg wrote on the horror of World War I: “The flower of our mature and youthful strength, hundreds ...
Left image: Prof Peter Stanley/Portrait photo (taken in Fort William, Kolkata, 2023) and a picture of the cover of Prof Stanley book 'Die in Battle: Do not Despair: The Indians on Gallipoli, 1915' ...
Gallipoli has become an enduring symbol of World War I’s futile carnage. But the campaign did have a purpose. For those who were there one hundred years ago, Gallipoli was not the stuff of legend that ...