
“The first-day objective of those landing on Cape Helles had been to secure a small village some four miles inland, and then to advance on the Turkish forts just above. Over the next seven months, the British would never reach that village, but would suffer nearly a quarter of a million casualties trying.”
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Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
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