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35. Gallipoli: Death at the Cliff Edge

Empire

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Ataturk and the Battle of Sarakamish

The origins of the campaign in Gallipoli comes from a Russian request of their British allies to come to their assistance. It was as it turns out, a self-inflicted wound from which the Ottoman Third Army was never to recover. The memoirs of soldiers who fought in that campaign capture the horrors of being sent to do battle in two meters of snow without proper snow gear or equipment or food or heating.

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