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A Prelude to Gallipoli

Autor Omer Ertur
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This documented historical narrative covers global military conflicts stretching from the shores of the Gallipoli Peninsula in the European part of the Ottoman Empire to a small town in the Australian desert. The novel presents a challenging and thought-provoking story that is based on a revised slice of history. It realistically reinterprets the background of a bloody political incident that occurred in Broken Hill on New Year's day 1915. On New Year's Day of 1915, a bloody terrorist attack took place in the Australian town of Broken Hill. The Australian newspapers reported that two armed Turks had attacked a picnic train and murdered innocent civilians. This tragic event bolstered the Australian government's recruitment effort, which had been having difficulty drawing a sufficient number of volunteers for the Great War. Soon after the Broken Hill attack, thousands of Australian and New Zealand volunteers joined the ANZAC forces with a burning desire to punish the Turks. It eventually became apparent that not a single Turk had been involved in the Broken Hill massacre. The suspects, originally from Afghanistan, had been killed immediately after the incident and buried in secret before dawn. All evidence of their innocence was promptly destroyed. Thus, the truth behind this bloody incident was hidden nearly for a century...
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ISBN-13: 9781505850383
ISBN-10: 150585038X
Pagini: 244
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: CREATESPACE