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Gallipoli: A Soldier's Story
Arthur Beecroft
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Description for Gallipoli: A Soldier's Story
Hardcover. Published for the first time in the centenary year of the Gallipoli Campaign, this is a soldier's story in his own words.Throughout this rare insight into what it was like for an 'civilian soldier' swept up in the fog of war, Beecroft's voice still speaks honestly to us today - of comradeship and devotion to duty, of fear and facing death. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 3JJF; BM; HBJF1; HBWN; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 193 x 21. Weight in Grams: 274.
At the start of the First World War, Arthur Beecroft was a recently qualified barrister in his twenties. Determined to enlist despite a medical condition, he volunteered for military service, first as a regular soldier, then as a despatch rider. Offered a commission in the Royal Engineers, in 1915 he saw action at Gallipoli. Now a byword for catastrophic military disaster, the Gallipoli Campaign was the ill-conceived Allied invasion of the Dardanelles. The campaign stalled almost immediately, resulting in over half a million casualties on both sides. Lucky to survive, several years later Beecroft wrote a detailed memoir of his ... Read more
At the start of the First World War, Arthur Beecroft was a recently qualified barrister in his twenties. Determined to enlist despite a medical condition, he volunteered for military service, first as a regular soldier, then as a despatch rider. Offered a commission in the Royal Engineers, in 1915 he saw action at Gallipoli. Now a byword for catastrophic military disaster, the Gallipoli Campaign was the ill-conceived Allied invasion of the Dardanelles. The campaign stalled almost immediately, resulting in over half a million casualties on both sides. Lucky to survive, several years later Beecroft wrote a detailed memoir of his ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Robert Hale Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Ramsbury, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719816543
SKU
V9780719816543
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About Arthur Beecroft
Arthur Beecroft enlisted in 1914 and served as a Signals Officer during the Gallipoli campaign. After the First World War, he wrote several detective novels under the pen-name Arthur Salcroft, and was awarded an MBE in 1922. During the Second World War he served in the Home Guard. Arthur Beecroft died peacefully in 1974. The foreword is by Andrew Roberts. ... Read more
Reviews for Gallipoli: A Soldier's Story
The memoir was discovered by [Arthur Beerroft's] granddaughter in the loft of her parent's home, after their deaths. It had lain undisturbed for over half a century and could easily have been lost. How fortunate we are that she has ensured publication.
Reviewer - The Gallipolian
The Gallipolian
Reviewer - The Gallipolian
The Gallipolian