New book on the Gallipoli
Campaign planning and landings
36 Days:
The Untold Story behind the Gallipoli Landings, by Hugh Dolan Interview with author Hugh Lunn,
[Archived from abc.net.au]. ABC Evenings with Steve Austin. (blogs.abc.net.au)
Success, not failure, is the real Anzac story
(smh.com.au) "New evidence suggests the landings at
Gallipoli were, in fact, a cleverly orchestrated and successful assault,
writes Steve Meacham."
Landing at
Anzac Cove (en.wikipedia.org)
Includes overview, geography, the landing plan, the first wave, the second
wave, Ottoman reaction, Baby 700, 400 Plateau, consolidating the landing,
stalemate, aftermath.
The First World War and the Anzac Legend [pdf] (Archived
from cambridge.edu.au) Sample pages from a commercially available book for
secondary students, Analysing Australian History by Ken Webb (Cambridge
web page). The chapter includes a short section on the landing at
Gallipoli and a timeline for 1915.
The Anzac Landing (gutenberg.net.au)
Section of an online book published in 1916, Five Months at Anzac by
Joseph Lievesley Beeston.
The Landing(From diggerhistory.info,
archived by the NLA's Pandora Archive on 6 Mar 2010. See also our "Where
is Digger History?" page.) Illustrated description of the landing at Gallipoli.
Includes an extract from Les Carlyon's Gallipoli addressing
the question Why were the Anzacs landed at the wrong beach?
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See also Gallipoli campaign videos,
particularly numbers 1 and 2. (But note that although these videos focus
on the Anzacs they take an overall British perspective.)
Special classroom units on the landing
at Gallipoli
● See also:
Gallipoli Campaign, Soldiers and
Military Operations printable and interactive
wordsearches
Classroom activities
Wartime Snapshots [pdf file] (archived
from anzacportal.dva.gov.au)
A act-intense background of the landing at Gallipolli, followed by
discussion questions and student activities.
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