
- 268 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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About this book
During August and September 1915 almost three thousand young volunteer Irish soldiers died on the killing fields of Gallipoli on the Turkish Aegean. A division of Kitchener's Army, at Suvla Bay they fell to gunshot-wounds and shellfire, while thirst, sunstroke and dysentery reduced their chances of survival. Hundreds were burned alive in raging bush-fires. In post-war Ireland political revolution led to the removal of Gallipoli from memory. One popular ballad told the volunteers, 'you fought for the wrong country; you died for the wrong cause, when the greatest war was at home'. Here, in heart-breaking detail, built from letters, diaries and archival sources, is the story of the 10th Irish Division, many of whom still lie today in Suvla Bay's deserted field of bones.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- PREFACE: A NOTE ON FORM AND METHODOLOGY
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- I : THE QUEST
- II : VOLUNTEERS
- III : VOYAGERS
- IV : INVADERS
- V : WARRIORS
- VI : CASUALTIES
- VII : VICTIMS
- VIII : GHOSTS
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND SOURCES
- INDEX
- Copyright