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A review by brampton
Gallipoli by Les Carlyon
4.0
Les Carlyon clearly wrote this for a certain market, that being the Australian Father’s Day Gift market, and he panders to his market well. Consequently there are little anti-British jibes throughout that would confuse any reader without a sense of irony (so there’s the US market gone).
He alternates between the politics of the British government and military High Command and anecdotes of life in the trenches that will make you laugh, cry, be outraged and feel a little bit sick in a regular rotation.
A constant theme of the book is that the terrain at Gallipoli is incomprehensible and although they do their best with the maps to explain what happened it is still confusing. One comprehensive map that displayed all the topographical features that were mentioned in the text would have assisted enormously.
He alternates between the politics of the British government and military High Command and anecdotes of life in the trenches that will make you laugh, cry, be outraged and feel a little bit sick in a regular rotation.
A constant theme of the book is that the terrain at Gallipoli is incomprehensible and although they do their best with the maps to explain what happened it is still confusing. One comprehensive map that displayed all the topographical features that were mentioned in the text would have assisted enormously.