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The Hidden Victory of Anzacs: Gallipoli
Burak Turna, in this stunning book, revives a term completely forgotten by the Modern History... The Powers...
His 3 years research in ANZAC/European/US archives reveals the the greatest secret of the history making club of countries...
The Battle of Gallipoli...
Many armies under the flag of Powers had come together to fight an unexpectedly difficult and complex conquest campaign against one of the strongest Empires of the East, The Ottoman Empire. What made the Ottomans great, was an obstacle on the path of the most daring conquest of the History.
And the Battle Of Gallipoli was the most daring phase of this great conquest campaign. ANZAC forces and Allies had gained superiority over Ottoman defences in Gallipoli even before the war started.
Powers, the league of the World's strongest countries, had carried out an operation prior to WW1 which was covered up like a sacred mystery, provided the necessary ground of the swift and decesive victory in Gallipoli.
Despite the outcome of the Battle of Gallipoli was nonetheless an absolute and swift triumph for the Anzacs, not least for the policy makers of Powers who had to design a new order out of the ruins of an Empire. So, the victory of the ANZACs had to be kept a secret and remain hidden for the sake of ongoing operations and the future designs in regional and global scale.
Burak Turna's unique language makes this non-fiction research book a page-turner.
His 3 years research in ANZAC/European/US archives reveals the the greatest secret of the history making club of countries...
The Battle of Gallipoli...
Many armies under the flag of Powers had come together to fight an unexpectedly difficult and complex conquest campaign against one of the strongest Empires of the East, The Ottoman Empire. What made the Ottomans great, was an obstacle on the path of the most daring conquest of the History.
And the Battle Of Gallipoli was the most daring phase of this great conquest campaign. ANZAC forces and Allies had gained superiority over Ottoman defences in Gallipoli even before the war started.
Powers, the league of the World's strongest countries, had carried out an operation prior to WW1 which was covered up like a sacred mystery, provided the necessary ground of the swift and decesive victory in Gallipoli.
Despite the outcome of the Battle of Gallipoli was nonetheless an absolute and swift triumph for the Anzacs, not least for the policy makers of Powers who had to design a new order out of the ruins of an Empire. So, the victory of the ANZACs had to be kept a secret and remain hidden for the sake of ongoing operations and the future designs in regional and global scale.
Burak Turna's unique language makes this non-fiction research book a page-turner.
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Published May 1, 2016
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Burak Turna
18 books11 followers20 Ocak 1975 tarihinde İstanbul'da doğdu.
İlk, orta ve lise ögrenimini Yeşilköy, İstanbul'da tamamladı. Kıbrıs Girne Amerikan Üniversitesi'nde İşletme okudu. Medya sektöründe, dergi ve kitap çevirmenliği, ekonomi muhabirliği yaptı; sonrasinda bankacılık, tekstil gibi çeşitli işlerde çalıştı. Yazma serüveni, günlük, öykü gibi ara adımlar olmadan doğrudan roman yazmakla başladı
Orkun Uçar ile yazdıkları Metal Fırtına ve daha sonra tek başına yazdığı Üçüncü Dünya Savaşı adındaki romanları Türkiye'de en çok satan kitaplar arasında oldu. Uzun süre Türkiye'nin gündeminden düşmedi.
İlk, orta ve lise ögrenimini Yeşilköy, İstanbul'da tamamladı. Kıbrıs Girne Amerikan Üniversitesi'nde İşletme okudu. Medya sektöründe, dergi ve kitap çevirmenliği, ekonomi muhabirliği yaptı; sonrasinda bankacılık, tekstil gibi çeşitli işlerde çalıştı. Yazma serüveni, günlük, öykü gibi ara adımlar olmadan doğrudan roman yazmakla başladı
Orkun Uçar ile yazdıkları Metal Fırtına ve daha sonra tek başına yazdığı Üçüncü Dünya Savaşı adındaki romanları Türkiye'de en çok satan kitaplar arasında oldu. Uzun süre Türkiye'nin gündeminden düşmedi.
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July 18, 2016
I am not a military scholar, and I am not from Australia or New Zealand, and I am only marginally aware of the Anzac losses at Gallipoli. But I do appreciate history, and the hard work of research. So, when I was given the opportunity to read and learn from this book, I took it.
There is so much that I did not know about the precursors to the assassination which signaled the official start of WWI, but a few of them are: the first recorded car bomb was in 1905 targeting the Ottoman sultan, the mail post was as important as the spy networks, there was a not-so-civil war in Syria in 1909, the blockade of the Dardanelles by Italy in 1911 demonstrated the need to control Gallipoli.
Throughout the book there are replicas (hardcover), or clickable specific articles and period maps from a wide assortment of newspapers in AU and GB, and a plethora of them in the US retrievable from the Library of Congress. Control of information by the military is hardly new or localized, but there are enough discrepancies noted to definitely call things into question.
Some things that I learned about this theater of the war are: the capabilities of the Queen Elizabeth class of dreadnought and it's far range shells were kept deliberately covert, Marconi was an Italian soldier of the time and his wireless radios on ships and planes were usd to triangulate targets, defeat of the Ottomans was seen as a Christian victory, the allies attacked Gallipoli from the sea while the Russ came in to attack from over the mountains, while there is no denying the horrors of this doomed plan by Churchill it was actually a victory as the Anzacs won and handed it over to the Garibaldeans who then handed it over to the Macedonians, the Ottoman POWs were sent to Egypt.
Not only was there so much to learn, but the learning (and enjoyment) were enhanced by the integration of the maps and articles into the body of the work instead of being relegated to a massive appendix.
If we do not learn from history.....
There is so much that I did not know about the precursors to the assassination which signaled the official start of WWI, but a few of them are: the first recorded car bomb was in 1905 targeting the Ottoman sultan, the mail post was as important as the spy networks, there was a not-so-civil war in Syria in 1909, the blockade of the Dardanelles by Italy in 1911 demonstrated the need to control Gallipoli.
Throughout the book there are replicas (hardcover), or clickable specific articles and period maps from a wide assortment of newspapers in AU and GB, and a plethora of them in the US retrievable from the Library of Congress. Control of information by the military is hardly new or localized, but there are enough discrepancies noted to definitely call things into question.
Some things that I learned about this theater of the war are: the capabilities of the Queen Elizabeth class of dreadnought and it's far range shells were kept deliberately covert, Marconi was an Italian soldier of the time and his wireless radios on ships and planes were usd to triangulate targets, defeat of the Ottomans was seen as a Christian victory, the allies attacked Gallipoli from the sea while the Russ came in to attack from over the mountains, while there is no denying the horrors of this doomed plan by Churchill it was actually a victory as the Anzacs won and handed it over to the Garibaldeans who then handed it over to the Macedonians, the Ottoman POWs were sent to Egypt.
Not only was there so much to learn, but the learning (and enjoyment) were enhanced by the integration of the maps and articles into the body of the work instead of being relegated to a massive appendix.
If we do not learn from history.....
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