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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820518503321

Titolo

Gallipoli : making history / / edited by Jenny Macleod

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : F. Cass

New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-135-77155-3

1-135-77156-1

0-429-23317-5

0-203-60796-1

1-280-07865-0

0-203-48931-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (205 p.)

Collana

Cass series--military history and policy, , 1465-8488 ; ; 16

Altri autori (Persone)

MacleodJenny

Disciplina

940.4/26

Soggetti

World War, 1914-1918 - Campaigns - Turkey - Gallipoli Peninsula - Historiography

History, Modern - Turkey - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Chiefly papers presented at an April, 2001, symposium.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-184) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Series editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Churchill and Gallipoli; Stories of Anzac; 'A War Memorial in Celluloid': The Gallipoli Legend in Australian Cinema, 1940s  1980s; The British Heroic-Romantic Myth of Gallipoli; 'Docile Supernumerary': A French Perspective on Gallipoli; Gallipoli and Ireland; Remembering an Ill-fated Venture: The Fourth Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment at Suvla Bay and its Legacy, 1915  39; Interpreting Unit Histories: Gallipoli and After; In the Shadow of Gallipoli? Amphibious Warfare in the Inter-War Period

Gallipoli as Contested Commemorative SpaceNotes; Notes on contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This new book traces the disparities in the memory of Gallipoli that are evident in the countries that participated in the campaign. It explores the way in which history is written at the personal, local, professional, and national levels.This study tackles key questions about just how the history of any given event comes to be written in a certain way and how



very different versions of an event can compete for attention. Often one particular version holds the field drowning out its rivals. The Gallipoli campaign of 1915 serves as an excellent case study through which the process of