Uncensored Letters From The Dardanelles

Author : Dardanelles Dardanelles
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ISBN 13 : 9781331083672
Total Pages : 352 pages
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Download or read book Uncensored Letters From the Dardenelles written by Dardanelles Dardanelles and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Uncensored Letters From the Dardenelles: Written to His English Wife by a French Medical Officer of Le Corps Expeditionnaire D'orient Dardanelles: a word evocative of sacrifice, duty, glory; Salonika: a stage in the new epic of the Great War, on that historic road to Constantinople familiar to the Franks of old. Two words that stand out radiantly in the Eastern light under the star-strewn heavens, before the azure screen on which we see Samothrace, its dim outline melting into the sonorous seas, its snow-capped peaks bathed in the brilliant sunshine - Samothrace, pedestal and fatherland of that Winged Victory which haunts our dreams. Those who shared in the sacrifice and the glory will find it fascinating to recall memories of these in the company of Dr. Vassal, who was at once an actor in and a witness of the great deeds he records. To these survivors, the charm of the narrative will be enhanced by the greatness of the adventure, which needs but the consecration of time to rival in sublimity even that Iliad the scene of which was laid on the same soil. On the morrow of the deadly landings at Koum Kaleh on the Asiatic coast, and afterwards at Sedd-el-Bahr, which had been assigned to the French by the British command, pluck and determination compensated for our losses and outweighed our insufficient numbers. For fifteen days and fifteen nights an uninterrupted struggle, meaning life or death, victory or defeat, was carried on along the narrow front of the Gallipoli Peninsula. The Turkish forces were perpetually reinforced by perfectly fresh troops kept in reserve close at hand. Ours, a thousand leagues from home, wore themselves out without hope of reinforcement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.