Turkey was closely allied with Germany before and during the Great War. The Kaiser supplied some of his best military brains - led by Liman von Sanders - as advisers to the Turkish army. One of them, Major-General Hans Kannengeisser, is the author of this book. Gallipoli is a well-covered campaign, but accounts from the other side of the hill are rare, making this book even more important. Kannengiesser was more than a mere liaison officer with the Turkish army - like Von Sanders, who commanded the Turkish Fifth Army, he actually commanded Turkish troops in action, holding the Turkish rank of Pasha - roughly equivalent to marshal